Mag ayaklanması'nın altında yatan nedenler ve sonuçları

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Abstract: This paper deals with the reasons for the Median Magus revolt which broke out at the end of the reign of Cambyses. Information concerning this uprising was obtained from the Bisutun inscription of Darius I, from Herodotus and subsequent Greek writers. Although this event is differently described in the Bisutun inscription and ancient sources, the ancient sources were based upon Darius version of events. The Bisutun inscription is of suspect objectivity being Darius s own autobiography. Darius s account contra- dicts some of the Persepolis tablets and itself. Consequently the Bisutun inscription when compared with other cuneiform tablets and with the knowledge dispersed amongst the ancient sources are here interrogated to establish the actual cause of the Magus revolt. The study concludes with a general evaluation compiling the data employed.