>There's about 10,000 or so tablets unearthed at Persepolis and not even 1% of them have been fully translated so far. Eventually at least a fraction of them will contain information on the Persian side of the Greco-Persian Wars and I'm sure that'll cause all kinds of hilarious butthurt for the anti-Persianfags.
No doubt. But I'm not an anti-Persianfag so I don't know why you even bring that up, because as long as those tablets aren't dug up, scoffing at Thucydides as a primary source is retarded and childish.
Matthew Hall
>Thucydides >primary source That's entire what's being scoffed.
Nicholas Nelson
>Living and writing about events that happened in your lifetime >Not a primary source for philological and historical criticism
Stop talking, you're embarrassing yourself.
Landon Ross
>In your life time
He wasn't alive during the Persian Wars, you moron.
Grayson Baker
>Romans had not religion absolute nonsense do you secular morons actually think this? zero understanding of Roman society
Anthony Myers
Thucydides was born over 20 years after the second Persian Invasion of Greece. I get what the other user is saying that Thucydides and even Herodotus are both extremely biased and more or less unscrupulous sources when it comes to information about the Persians.
Both relay on second and third hand accounts of major events, and neither were born during Darius and Xerxes' invasions of Greece. But some things are clearly fabrication. Herodotus regales a story of us about Cyrus the Great sparing Croesus life after defeating the Lydian army because a storm magically "sprouted" out of thin air when Cyrus was about to have him burned alive as a sign from Apollo to spare and pardon the Lydian ruler.
Given that a) we already know that Cyrus did not subjugate his enemies, former or current, to executions or Assyrian styled punishments, and that b) Croesus disappears after the Babylonian Chronicles state that Croesus was killed in combat.
History is all about disseminating fact from bullshit.
Jacob Campbell
Don't forget the crap about how Herodotus claims that Darius when ascending to the throne after Cambyses death was only able to "retake" Babylonia by a loyal Persian soldier mutiliating his face and pretending to be a traitor who supposedly after being put in charge of the rebel army opened the gates of Babylon.
Now if anyone is familiar with Homer, they know this fucking directly parallels and is a copy-pasted version of Odysseus doing the same in Homer's epic. Coincidence? Thought so.
Elijah Robinson
Is that true? What do I have to major in to help translate them? Or is learning Old Persian and Cuneiform enough to get such a job?
Levi Sanchez
>one user is wrong about religion in Rome >therefore secular people are ignorant about Rome do you religious morons actually think this? zero understanding about human society
Connor Sanchez
Not sure about the exact number but at least 1000+ tablets detailing stuff about building projects, tax records, administrative works, court issues, edicts, and what not are presumed to be on those tablets.
Though I'm pretty sure to translate you'd need to know both Old Persian and Aramic. And possibly Elamite as well. But yeah the gist of it there's a shit ton of records and information on those tablets so who knows what other gems they have.
