[muawiyah]

Athens produced various writers and thinkers. So did Azerbaijan ~ at roughly the same time ~ then they were gobbled up by the expanding Persian empire and their stuff simply disappeared. We'll never know about them.

On the other hand, the Jews in Babylon ~ on and off again part of Persia, produced intellectual works in literature comparable to what the Greeks were doing ~ and surpassed the Greeks ~ and also trudged along the pathways to authority sufficiently so that their works survived.

BTW, the greater body of Athenian literature was destroyed ~ we know of it through stories about it, and the few snippets that survived.

[yarddog]

OK,you have piqued my curiosity about Azerbaijan in the 5th century BC. I know almost nothing about that country except that it is close to Persia and Turkey.

What did they do which equals the golden age of Greece?

Now the Jews in captivity we know a little more about, especially from Daniel. Babylon and Nineveh.