Persian responses : political and cultural interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire

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  1. Persian responses : political and cultural interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire / edited by Christopher Tuplin ; contributors, Lindsay Allen [and 14 others].
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  1. Swansea [Wales] : Classical Press of Wales ; Oxford : Distributed in the UK by Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : Distributed in the USA by David Brown, 2007.

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Additional authors
  1. Tuplin, Christopher.
Description
  1. xxv, 373 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  1. A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander. For Egyptologists and Assyriologists they belonged to an era that received scant attention compared with the glory days of the New Kingdom or the Neo-Assyrian Empire. For most archaeologists they were elusive in a material record that lacked a distinctively Achaemenid imprint. Things have changed now. The empire is an object of study in its own right, and a community of Achaemenid specialists has emerged to carry that study forward. Such communities are, however, apt to talk among themselves and the present volume aims to give a professional but non-specialist audience some taste of the variety of subject-matter and discourse that typifies Achaemenid studies. The broad theme of political and cultural interaction reflecting the empires diversity and the nature of our sources for its history is illustrated in fourteen chapters that move from issues in Greek historiography through a series of regional studies (Egypt, Anatolia, Babylonia and Persia) to Zarathushtra, Alexander the Great and the early modern reception of Persepolis.
  2. In this taster of the variety of subject matter within Achaemenid studies the broad theme of political and cultural interaction reflecting the empire's diversity and the nature of the sources for its history is illustrated in 14 chapters.
Subject
  1. Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C
  2. Achämeniden ca. v700 - v330
  3. Achämeniden
  4. To 640
  5. 800 b.C.-300 b.C
  6. 15.51 Antiquity
  7. Civilization
  8. Politics and government
  9. Achaemeniden
  10. Cultural aspects
  11. Political aspects
  12. Akemenider
  13. Iran > Civilization > To 640
  14. Iran > History > To 640
  15. Iran > Politics and government
  16. Iran
  17. Iran Altertum
  18. Iran
  19. Perserriket
  20. Rennes <2004>
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction / Christopher Tuplin -- Thucydides' portrait of Tissaphernes re-examined / John O. Hyland -- Xenophon's wicked Persian, or What's wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's views on lying and breaking oaths / Gabriel Danzig -- On Persian tryphē in Athenaeus / Dominique Lenfant -- Treacherous hearts and upright tiaras: the Achaemenid king's head-dress / Christopher Tuplin -- Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis / Alan B. Lloyd -- Indigenous aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia / Frédéric Maffre -- Hellenization and Lycian cults during the Achaemenid period / Eric A. Raimond -- Babylonian workers in the Persian heartland : palace building at Matannan in the reign of Cambyses / Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Kristin Kleber -- Reading Persepolis in Greek : gifts of the Yauna / Margaret -- Boxus the Persian and the hellenization of Persis / Nicholas Sekunda -- The philosopher's Zarathushtra / Phiroze Vasunia -- Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? / Robin Lane Fox -- 'Chilminar olim Persepolis' : European reception of a Persian ruin / Lindsay Allen -- Pottering around Persepolis : observations on early European visitors to the site / St. John Simpson.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.