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Persian responses : political and cultural interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire /
In this taster of the variety of subject matter within Achaemenid studies the broad theme of political and cultural interaction reflecting the empire's diversity and the nature of the sources for its history is illustrated in 14 chapters.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swansea [Wales] : Oxford : Oakville, CT :
Classical Press of Wales ; Distributed in the UK by Oxbow ; Distributed in the USA by David Brown,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Christopher Tuplin
- Thucydides' portrait of Tissaphernes re-examined / John O. Hyland
- Xenophon's wicked Persian, or What's wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's views on lying and breaking oaths / Gabriel Danzig
- On Persian tryphē in Athenaeus / Dominique Lenfant
- Treacherous hearts and upright tiaras: the Achaemenid king's head-dress / Christopher Tuplin
- Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis / Alan B. Lloyd
- Indigenous aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia / Frédéric Maffre
- Hellenization and Lycian cults during the Achaemenid period / Eric A. Raimond
- Babylonian workers in the Persian heartland : palace building at Matannan in the reign of Cambyses / Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Kristin Kleber
- Reading Persepolis in Greek : gifts of the Yauna / Margaret
- Boxus the Persian and the hellenization of Persis / Nicholas Sekunda
- The philosopher's Zarathushtra / Phiroze Vasunia
- Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? / Robin Lane Fox
- 'Chilminar olim Persepolis' : European reception of a Persian ruin / Lindsay Allen
- Pottering around Persepolis : observations on early European visitors to the site / St. John Simpson.