Two titans of ancient conquest go head-to-head! Join us as we compare Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great across five ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

Given this pattern of constant conquest—Cyrus the Great in the sixth century B.C., and Alexander the Great two hundred years later—it is perhaps more helpful to see the city not as one Babylon ...