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Transfer of hegemony (2)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Concept of “universal hegemony”
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.01 Continuity of the Empire after the fall of Nineveh
12.02.03.01.01 Concept of “universal hegemony”
Continuity of the Empire after the fall of Nineveh
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.01 Continuity of the Empire after the fall of Nineveh

Keywords
hegemony

Period
1st century BCE
Achaemenid Empire
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Diodorus Siculus 2.32.2:
After the Assyrians had ruled Asia for five hundred years they were conquered by the Medes … Cyaxares became for the Medes the founder of their universal empire.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Diodorus Siculus 2.32.2

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Cf. Transfer of hegemony (1)

Simo Parpola

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