Alexander Histories and Iranian Reflections : Remnants of Propaganda and Resistance /

Parivash Jamzadeh demonstrates how the propaganda material used during Alexander the Great's military campaign to conquer the Achaemenid empire shows multiple layers of Iranian influences. She also shows that the studied sources do not always offer an accurate account of the contemporary Irania...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jamzadeh, Parivash (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Studies in Persian cultural history ; v. 3.
Temas:
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Travel > Iran.
Darius > I, > King of Persia, > 548 B.C.-485 B.C.
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
359-323 B.C
Historiography
Military campaigns
Propaganda
War > Religious aspects
Travel
Greece > History > Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. > Campaigns > Iran.
Iran > History > Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C. > Historiography.
Iran > History > Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C. > Propaganda.
Iran > History > Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C. > Religious aspects.
Iran > History.
Grèce > Histoire > 359-323 av. J.-C. (Expansion de la Macédoine) > Campagnes et batailles > Iran.
Iran > Histoire > 334-325 av. J.-C. (Conquête d'Alexandre) > Historiographie.
Iran > Histoire > 334-325 av. J.-C. (Conquête d'Alexandre) > Propagande.
Iran > Histoire > 334-325 av. J.-C. (Conquête d'Alexandre) > Aspect religieux.
Iran > Histoire.
Greece
Iran
History
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One The Plight of the Achaemenid Royal Women
  • 1. According to Ancestral Custom
  • 2. Alexander and Darius' Mother
  • 3. Alexander and Darius' Wife
  • 4. Alexander and the Granddaughter of Ochus
  • 5. Episodes in Cyropaedia
  • Chapter Two Darius' Letters to Alexander and the Responses: Ideology of Conquest in Retrospect
  • Chapter Three The Campaign for Persia in Iranian & Zoroastrian Lights
  • 1. Alexander's Advances and Tribulations
  • 2. Mutilated Greek Captives' Story
  • 3. Persepolis' Final Fate and the Sources' Arguments
  • Chapter Four Darius' Last Days & Counter-Propagandas
  • Chapter Five Bessus' Fate
  • Chapter Six Alexander's Persian Attire
  • Chapter Seven Reflections from Darius I's Rhetoric
  • 1. Alexander as a Mock-Divinity
  • 2. The Incident of Cyrus' Tomb
  • 3. The King and the Ideology of Truth
  • 4. Bessus' Punishment
  • 5. Darius I's World Order
  • Chapter Eight Zoroastrian Echoes in Alexander Histories
  • 1. Zoroastrian References in the Story of Clitus
  • 2. The Boar Motif and its Zoroastrian Relevance
  • 3. The Sogdian Campaign and its Zoroastrian Features
  • 4. Iranian and Zoroastrian Features of Hephaestion's Funeral
  • Chapter Nine Iranian Echoes in Mutiny's Accounts
  • Chapter Ten Alexander's Final Days and Iranian Reflections
  • Chapter Eleven Alexander's Entombment and Iranian Echoes
  • Chapter Twelve The Plight of Alexander's Family
  • Chapter Thirteen Reverence for the Fravashī of Alexander
  • Chapter Fourteen Testimony of Zoroastrian Sources
  • Chapter Fifteen Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • index.

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