A Cornucopia of Classics Resources is an ever-growing site that aims to streamline the development of more diverse and inclusive reading lists within the field of Classics.
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by Touraj Daryaee and Khodadad Rezakhani Abstract: Daryaee introduces the Achaemenid Empire’s administrative system and discusses its appeal as a comparatively non-violent Iron Age Empire when set against Assyria,…
by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: Daryaee provides a brief narrative history of the Achaemenid Empire, examining its unprecedented achievements in unifying diverse provinces and in administering these through the satrapy…
by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: Daryaee shows that despite elephants’ status as demonic creatures in Zoroastrianism and the Sasanian dynasty’s formalisation of this faith as the official religion in Persia, there was broad…
by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: This survey article accounts for the developments made in Iranian historiography in the 20th century, focusing on developments in understanding around philology, religious history,…
by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: Daryaee contends that Sasanian views of the past were not borne of historical ignorance of the Achaemenids and their achievements but rather the products of a conscious decision to turn away…
by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: Daryaee shows that Herodotus was not an infallible interpreter of foreign cultural practices by showing that his presentation of Persian court drinking practices misunderstood the centrality…
by Bet Hucks. Description: Bet Hucks talks about Roman importation and love of Egyptian art and other cultural material, the importance of thinking about material remains in assemblages and considering the contexts in…
by Bink Hallum and Uwe Vagelpohl. Description: Bink Hallum and Uwe Vagelpohl discuss the formation of the Islamic civilisation through translation. Why were nearly all available Greek texts translated into Arabic? How…
by Rachel Mairs and Anastasia Bakogianni. Description: Dr. Rachel Mairs of Reading University covers her research on the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions project based at Oxford University. Podcast by Classics…