Sasanians and their Ancestors
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…
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Herodotus on Drinking Wine in the Achaemenid World: Greek and Persian Perceptions
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…
The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period
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…