&c.] The victory of Cyrus seemed at one time to realize all that had been hoped.

The grave disciples of the Avesta and the adorers of Jehovah believed themselves brothers.

Persia had begun by banishing the multiple _devas_, and by transforming them into demons (_divs_), to draw from the old Arian imaginations (essentially naturalistic) a species of Monotheism.

The prophetic tone of many of the teachings of Iran had much analogy with certain compositions of Hosea and Isaiah.
Israel reposed under the Achemenidae,[1] and under Xerxes (Ahasuerus) made itself feared by the Iranians themselves.

But the triumphal and often cruel entry of Greek and Roman civilization into Asia, threw it back upon its dreams.