Second War with Chosroes and conquest of Armenia.

Religious Reforms.

Internal Administration and Government.Art.Coinage.

Inscriptions._ Around the cradle of an Oriental sovereign who founds a dynasty there cluster commonly a number of traditions, which have, more or less, a mythical character.

The tales told of the Great, which even Herodotus set aside as incredible, have their parallels in narratives that were current within one or two centuries with respect to the founder of the Second Persian Empire, which would not have disgraced the mythologers of Achaemenian times.