Cyrus was referred to as the Messiah because he freed the Jews from Babylon. (The Silk Roads, p. 2) I admit to being interested in Cyrus both because of his role in the history of Judaism and because of his role as a member of the Time Patrol, albeit in a deleted timeline. There is or was - we lack Temporal tenses - a timeline in which it was Keith Denison that was killed by the Scythians who then carried his head in a skin of blood. (p. 3) Thanks to an intervention by Everard and Denison, the man who was born as Cyrus grew up to be Cyrus the Great and to be killed by the Scythians.
Historical fiction and time travel fiction add an extra dimension as we imagine fictional characters interacting with historical figures. Nicholas Pym saves the lives of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II.
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Kaor, Paul!
And the Persians were unusually mild conquerors and empire builders for those days. I quoted here in the blog inscriptions of Ashurbanipal of Assyria and Darius I of Persia contrasting them sharply. The Assyrian king boasted of how many of his enemies he killed while Darius I talked about restoring order in his domains and preventing the strong from oppressing the weak.
Ad astra! Sean
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