Some houses were already in flames; they seized on torches, and, like the intoxicated Macedonians in persepolis of old, they rushed through the city, setting fire to every mansion they plundered in their course.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Of the palaces those at persepolis were the most remarkable, for in them Persian architecture reached its fullest development.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
Within six months he had marched to and entered in turn, without other let or hindrance than resistance of mountain tribesmen in the passes, the capitals of the Empire-Babylon, Susa, persepolis, Ecbatana; and since these cities all held by him during his subsequent absence of six years in farther Asia, the victory of the West over the Ancient East may be regarded as achieved on the day of Arbela.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth