Episode 30 – The Lost Army

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 21 June 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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“So Darius son of Hystaspes was made king, and the whole of Asia, which Cyrus first and Cambyses after him had conquered, was subject to him…and everything was full of his power. First he made and set up a carved stone, upon which was cut the figure of a horseman, with this inscription: ‘Darius son of Hystaspes, aided by the excellence of his horse, and of Oebares his groom, got possession of the kingdom of Persia.'” – Herodotus Cambyses successfully conquered Egypt, but forays beyond its frontiers met with frustration and disaster. The promise of Lydian gold lured Polycrates to a gruesome death in Sardis. Bardiya briefly wrestled the Persian Empire from his brother, only to lose it to a conspiracy of nobles led by Darius. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.0	Hi I'm Scott Chesworth and welcome to the ancient world.
0:56.2	Episode 30 The Lost Army.
0:59.9	In the spring of 525 BC, the vast invasion force of Cambys II set out across the deserts of Northern
1:11.5	Arabia to affect the conquest of Egypt.
1:15.0	The Persian king had spent the first four years of his reign preparing for the assault.
1:21.0	The shipbuilders of Phoenicia had been commissioned to provide a massive fleet of
1:26.1	high-tech tririms, the first ever employed by the Persians.
1:31.8	Troops had been demanded and received from all corners of the empire, from the Ionian
1:37.1	Greeks of the West to the Citian nomads of the East, and Arab soldiers had been recruited to guide the army along the quickest route to the Egyptian
1:47.0	frontier.
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