After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the history of the Achaemenids slipped into legend, myth, and obscurity. By the 6th Century CE, the likes of Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes had been all but forgotten in Iran. Instead, the Sassanid Persian Empire remembered the stories of great heroes from the Avesta, occupying the equivalent of the Achaemenids' place in history.
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65: The Peace of Callias
64: Fight to the End
63: The Little Pharaoh That Could(n't)
62: Death In Quick Succession
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61: Blood on the Eurymedon
60: Given Against The Demons
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58: Persia's First Family
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54: Two By "Sea"
53: One By Land
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