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The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE /
"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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.