Babylon

Period of the Greek city-states encompassing the Persian Wars, the ascendancy of Athens, the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedon before the death of Alexander the Great.

The early imperial period of the Achaemenid Persian state under Cyrus II, including its eastern and northeastern expansion.

Cyrus II, commonly known as Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire and ruler of Persia from approximately 559 to 530 BCE.

Queen of the Massagetae, known primarily from Herodotus’s account of the war with Cyrus II around 530 BCE.

The broad Central Asian steppe associated with the Massagetae and other Saka groups.

The Roman province containing Alexandria and the wider administrative and cultural setting of the story.