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Persia

The Persian Empire: A History
by Lindsay Allen
Persian rule created the first land-based world empire, which became one of the first superpowers in the Near East. The Achaemenid dynasty controlled a vast amount of territory, stretching from northern Libya to Central Asia from the 16th century BC. For over 200 years, its kings fostered international communication and cultural exchange to an unprecedented degree, developing a unique imperial image rooted in the diverse and sophisticated ...
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Safavid Art and Architecture
edited by Sheila R Canby
The era of Safavid rule (1501-1722) was a time of dynamic religious and political development in Iran, when all the arts attained new heights of brilliance and opulence, and architecture flourished with the growth of cities. This volume publishes 19 papers given at a conference at The British Museum in 1998. Representing the most recent work of the foremost scholars in the field, they deal with aspects of Safavid painting and the conservation of ...
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Writing Ancient Persia
by Thomas Harrison
The history of Achaemenid Persia the empire of Cyrus the Great, Darius and Xerxes has largely been rewritten in the last thirty years. Inspired by new sources of information, and by a determination to see Persia in its own terms, historians have created a powerful new image of the Persian Empire: tightly organised and resilient, tolerant towards the religions and cultures of its subject peoples, and with kings and queens whose concerns were ...
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Arjan Tomb: At the Crossroads of the Elamite and the Persian Empires
by J. Alvarez-Mon
This book is based on a study of the archaeological evidence deriving from the Arjan tomb, an undisturbed elite burial found in 1982 near the town of Behbahan in south-western Iran. The fact that this burial can be confidently dated to ca. 600-550 BC presents an exceptional opportunity to reassess former views regarding the survival of Elamite traditions and the emergence of the Persian Empire. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of the ...
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Ctesias' History of Persia: Tales of the Orient
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and James Robson
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. It was completed at a time when the Greeks were fascinated by Persia and seems very much to cater to contemporary interest in Persian wealth and opulence, powerful Persian women, the institution of the harem, kings and queens, eunuchs and secret plots. However Ctesias' work is more than simple palace gossip; it is suggested here that he was attempting ...
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Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
by Barbara Brend and Charles Melville
Composed more than a millennium ago, the "Shahnameh" - the great royal book of the Persian court - recounts the history of the Persian people from its mythic origins down to the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. The contributors shed light on the epic's background, national importance and enduring legacy, accompanied by a wealth of illustrations from "Shahnameh" manuscripts belonging to the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Victoria and Albert ...
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The Hymns of Zoroaster
translated, with an introduction and commentary by M.L. West
A new translation of the foundation texts of the Zoroastrian religion, the Gathas (songs) composed by Zoraster himself, together with the Liturgy in seven chapters composed shortly after his death some 2600 years ago. After a substantial introduction to Zoroaster's religious thought, West presents the translations with facing page explanations of the meaning of each verse. 182p (I.B. Tauris 2010)
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Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West
by Warwick Ball
This second volume of Warwick Ball's series on Asia in Europe examines the Persian contribution to the making of Europe. He starts with the extension of the empire of Cyrus the Great into Asia Minor, and Persian rule over the Greek colonies there, before examining the impact of the Persian Wars on the development of Greek civilisation and identity. The rest of the book deals less with Asia physically in Europe as with cultural contacts, initially ...
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The World of Achaemenid Persia
edited by John Curtis and St John Simpson
This massive book publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name held at the British Museum in 2005. The list of contributors and the comprehensive scope of the topics they cover is impressive, and the volume acts as an important overview of research on Achaemenid Persia, from a vast range of perspectives. The 51 papers are grouped in eight sections: History and Historiography; Religion; Gender Studies; Art and Architecture; ...
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Persian Empire : A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period
by Amelie Kuhrt
This monumental work collects a stunning array of sources, both historical and archaeological, for the Achaemenid period of Persian history (550-330 BC). This really is an impressive undertaking because the sources (all here translated by the author) are in an array of languages - Greek, Latin, Old Persian, Akkadian, Hebrew, Aramaic and Egyptian. Hitherto collections of documents for Persian history have tended to focus on the Greek and Roman ...
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