Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . r Babylonian Folk-Lore, in theFolk-Lorc Journal, vol. I., January, 1SS3, i)[). iG ff. 26o MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. in collections of fables and anecdotes or shortstories. 27, These are not the only school-exercises thathave survived, and the method of impressing thingson the mind by writing them out does not appearto have been limited to children. Mr. H. Rassamhas brought home many fragments containing law-texts from the tablets of precedents, copied outca
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . r Babylonian Folk-Lore, in theFolk-Lorc Journal, vol. I., January, 1SS3, i)[). iG ff. 26o MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. in collections of fables and anecdotes or shortstories. 27, These are not the only school-exercises thathave survived, and the method of impressing thingson the mind by writing them out does not appearto have been limited to children. Mr. H. Rassamhas brought home many fragments containing law-texts from the tablets of precedents, copied outcarefully three times, evidently by law-students, forpurposes of memorizing. As for the class of docu-ments known as contract-tablets, they do not byany means cease with the Babylonian Empire. Strayspecimens bring down the use of them to an aston-ishingly late period—as late as the first centuriesafter Christ,—if we are to trust one which is datedfrom the reign of a Persian king who reigned about100 ,—showing that the use of cuneiform writingdied out very gradually and«prevailed much longerthan had at first been MEDIA AND THE RISK np PERSIA. I. Had the throne of Media, du-in^ Nebuchadrez-zars long reign, been occupied by Kyaxares, or amonarch of the same ambitious and active stamp, itis very probable that the Babylonian would havehad occasion, in his lifetime, to test the efficiency ofthose bulwarks and defences which his foresight sobusily devised. For relationship, especially the ar-tificial connection by marriage, has not mucli weightin politics, and if the founder of the Median Empirehad seen an opening toward rounding it off (asthe modern phrase goes), at the expense of either orbotli his neighbors, it is not likely that considerationfor either his daughter or daughter-in-law wouldhave stopped him. ]^ut he died quite early in Neb-uchadrezzars reign (584), and his son and successor,Astyages (the Ishtuvegu of cuneiform p. 221), was a man of se
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