The Iranian Expanse : Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE-642 CE /

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"The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment--everything from royal cities and paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire temples--to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies over a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Canepa, Matthew P., 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sacred space.
Palaces.
Kings and rulers > Dwellings.
Architecture and state.
Architecture and religion.
Architecture, Ancient.
ART / History / Ancient & Classical.
ARCHITECTURE / History / Prehistoric & Primitive.
Architecture antique > Iran.
Cultural landscapes > Social aspects > Iran > History > To 1500.
Sacred space > Iran > History > To 1500.
Palaces > Iran > History > To 1500.
Architecture and religion > History > To 1500.
Architecture and state > Iran > History > To 1500.
Architecture, Ancient > Iran.
Iran.
Iran > Histoire > Jusqu'à 651.
Iran > History > To 640.
Iran > Kings and rulers > Dwellings > History > To 1500.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : conceptualizing Iran and building Iranian empires
  • Ordering the earth and building the First Persian Empire
  • The destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the creation of Seleucid Iran
  • The rise of the Arsacids and a new Iranian topography of power
  • Rival visions, ancient landscapes, and new royal identities in post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus
  • Sasanian rupture and renovation
  • Persian religion and Achaemenid sacred spaces
  • The Seleucid transformation of Iranian sacred spaces
  • Ancient sacred landscapes and new royal identities in Anatolia and the Caucasus
  • Iranian funerary landscapes
  • Dynastic sanctuaries
  • Reshaping the Persian monumental and ritual legacy and building a new vision of the Kayanid past
  • The creation of a primordial Iranian sacred topography
  • Persian palatial cosmologies
  • The Seleucid transformation Persian palatial architecture and a new Iranian tradition under the Arsacids
  • The palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World
  • Earthly paradises.

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