Chapter II: The Median or Scythian Empire

[b] HERODOTUS, _op. cit._

[c] THEODORE NÖLDEKE, article “Persia,” in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_.

[d] A. H. SAYCE, _The Higher Criticism and the Monuments_.

[e] The Holy Bible.

[f] R. W. ROGERS, _History of Babylonia and Assyria_.

[g] CTESIAS, _Persica_.

[h] BEROSUS, _Βαβυλωνικά_.

[i] STRABO, _Γεωγραφικά_.