Topic: society (2)

• PeopleThe Magi

  The Magi (Old Persian magu-) were the priestly class of the western Iranians, the one body of religious specialists named across the Median, Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian ages. Herodotus counts them among the six Median tribes and names them the officiants without whom no Persian could…

• PeopleThe Persians

  The Persians (Old Persian Pārsa) were the ruling people of the Achaemenid Empire: the Iranian-speaking ethnos of the Fārs highland from which the dynasty sprang, whose aristocracy dominated imperial command and the great satrapies from the Indus to the Aegean, and whose name the subject world used…