Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Nyika yeGirisi neRoma yakanga iine imwe "nyika" kana kuti umambo kumabvazuva kwayo, vaPersia, kwaiva nokubatana nguva dzose: Xenophon, The Anabasis, the March Up Country, the Greco-Persian wars, the famous battles of
Marathon neSalamis, nhamo yechiGiriki "VaPersia" naAeschylus, Alexander Mukuru kukundwa kwamambo wePersia Darius III uye kukunda kweumambo hwePersia, kana kuti zvinetso zvevakuru vakuru veRoma gare gare nemauto ePersia, akadai saPompey Mukuru, uye waMarcus Licinius Crassus (mukundi wemuranda mukuru Spartacus), uyo akakundwa munhandare neuto rePersia uye akagurwa musoro navo.