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          Panthea is the wife of Abradatus, king of Susa. She becomes a prisoner of Cyrus during a battle of the Assyrian war. Cyrus treats her so well during her captivity that she convinces her husband Abradatus to join his ranks.<hr>
          Abradatus is a king of Susa, and an ally of the Assyrians against Cyrus the Great, according to this text, due to a debt of his father. He later joins Cyrus's camp and dies on the battlefield.<hr>
          Susa is the Greek name of the ancient Persian administrative division with Susa as its capital, an ancient city of Iran. It is an empire stretching from present-day Greece to Afghanistan, passing through Egypt.<hr>
          Assyrians is a name for all the Christians of the East from Mesopotamia.<hr>
          Cyrus II, known as Cyrus the Great, is the founder of the Persian Empire, of the Achaemenid dynasty. His reign, from about 559 to 530 BC, is marked by conquests of unprecedented scale: after subduing the Medes, an ancient people of Iran, he places under his domination the Kingdom of Lydia and the Greek city-states of Ionia, then the Neo-Babylonian Empire, comprising Mesopotamia, Syria, Phoenician cities, corresponding to present-day Lebanon and Judea.<hr>
          Lydia is an ancient country in Asia Minor, close to the Aegean Sea, with Sardis as its capital on the Pactolus River.<hr>
          Croesus, born around 596 BC, is a king of Lydia and the last ruler of the Mermnad dynasty. He is an opponent of Cyrus, he is imprisoned by him at the end of the war.<hr>
          Araspes is an officer of Cyrus in charge of protecting Panthea during her captivity. Following his attempt to abuse this queen, he is executed by Cyrus.<hr>
          The Pactolus, now Sart Çayı, is a river in Turkey, a tributary of the left bank of the Gediz, which in antiquity purportedly carried gold dust, if we were to believe the sources of the time.<hr>
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                        Tenth Discourse – Amalasuntha to Theodahad<hr>
                                 Amalasuntha, Queen of the Ostrogoths<hr>
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          After the death of her husband Eutharic, Amalasuntha, the daughter of the great Theodoric, reigned with prestige for eight years in Italy, during the minority of her son Athalaric.<hr>
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