By Vanessa B. Gorman Situated on the southwest coast of modern Turkey, Miletos stood for centuries as one of the paramount cities in the Hellenic world, a gateway between the East and West. It became especially famous…
By Emma Bridges Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks’ historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted,…
By Amélie Kuhrt Abstract: Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated…
By Shahrokh Razmjou Abstract: Considers the Cyrus Cylinder, an Akkadian declaration on clay which praises Persia’s King Cyrus the Great, from a Persian point of view. Razmjou examines, amongst other topics, Babylon at…
By Melissa Benson for Herodotus Helpline Abstract: Dr Melissa Benson (UCL) offers a thorough reassessment of several passages form Book 3 of the Histories, and explores Herodotus’ awareness of Darius’ official account…
By Margaret C. Miller Book Description: It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Athenians hated and despised the Persians, but the claims of contempt are disproved by the evidence of archaeology, epigraphy,…
By Amélie Kuhrt Abstract: The Ancient Near East embraces a vast geographical area, from the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the east to the Levant and Anatolia, and from the Black Sea in the north to Egypt in the…
By Maria Brosius Abstract: A History of the Achaemenid Empire considers archaeological and written sources to provide an expansive, source-based introduction to the diverse and culturally rich world of ancient…
By Laura Castro Royo Abstract: Discusses the postal service used by the Achaemenid Empire. Posted by Las Plumas De Simurgh, Youtube, 2020. View on Youtube
by Margaret Miller Abstract: The rendering of Persians in Attic vase-painting provides one of the great apparent exceptions to the general principle of ‘no historical subjects’ in Greek art. In the period of the…
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