Iran

ISBN: 9780521614078
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Founded in AD 224 the Sasanian Dynasty ruling Persia proved considerably more powerful and ambitious than its predecessors, and caused Rome and the Eastern Empire correspondingly greater problems. This study is an excellent resource for relatio... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781845114060
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
This collection of essays aims not to form any sort of comprehensive history of Parthian Iran, but rather to explore aspects of Parthian culture, and particularly to rescue what the authors see as a dynamic era of cultural, religious and artist... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004163287
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book contains papers representing the results of the latest research into the relationship between the imperial culture of the Achaemenids and local traditions. Some of them are devoted to the Southern Caucasus, especially to latest archa... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125180
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of A... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781598742251
Published by : Left Coast Press
Our knowledge of many groups or periods has benefited from a systematic ceramic analysis, however as yet the Sasanian Empire of ancient Persia (224-651 AD) has not been subjected to the same examination. Merv, an expansive ancient city located ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415320894
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Oxbow says: This newest volume in Routledge's Peoples of the Ancient World series, which has previously featured books on the Babylonians, Trojans and Egyptians, focuses on the Persians. Afforded a rather biased and unbalanced legacy by the Gr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415320900
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Oxbow says: This newest volume in Routledge's Peoples of the Ancient World series, which has previously featured books on the Babylonians, Trojans and Egyptians, focuses on the Persians. Afforded a rather biased and unbalanced legacy by the Gr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780951644317
Published by : Centre for Middle Eastern & Islamic
The Shahnama or Book of Kings is a verse epic composed in 1010 AD by Firdausi which narrates the history of ancient Iran from earliest times to the earliest seventh century. This voume brings together a collection of papers exploring the Shahna... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923363
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 128
The late prehistoric Bakun A culture in Fars is a major source of information on the initial development of the evolutionary path which vertical mobile pastoralists of highland Iran may have taken to develop state organisations. Long before the... .... Learn More