Writing Ancient Persia
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Author | : Thomas Harrison |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A critique of Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history.
Author | : Thomas Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Historiography |
ISBN | : 9781472541048 |
Writing Ancient Persia offers a far-reaching appreciation and critique of this recent movement. The bias of Greek sources on Persia, it argues, cannot simply be peeled away to reveal authentic source material. Persian evidence points to a significantly less rosy image of Persian imperialism. And past writers on Achaemenid Persia, far from rejecting it as the mirror image and enemy of the Greeks, frequently traced its influence on the classical Greco-Roman world, and identified strongly with Persia as a model. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Béatrice André-Salvini |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Achaemenid dynasty |
ISBN | : 0520247310 |
A richly-illustrated and important book that traces the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires.
Author | : Matt Waters |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107652723 |
The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview of the Achaemenid period while considering the manifold interpretive problems historians face in constructing and understanding its history. This book offers a Persian perspective even when relying on Greek textual sources and archaeological evidence. Waters situates the story of the Achaemenid Persians in the context of their predecessors in the mid-first millennium BCE and through their successors after the Macedonian conquest, constructing a compelling narrative of how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550–330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on Middle Eastern as well as Greek and European history.
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1438127847 |
For almost 1,200 years, the Persians ruled a territory that stretched from the Black Sea into Central Asia, from India to Egypt and into the fringes of southern Europe. During that period from 550 BCE to 651 CE, the ancient Persians learned to cultivate crops such as wheat and barley and to domesticate animals; they also demonstrated their talents for architecture and art by building enormous palaces, such as at the site of Persepolis, and through intricate art painted on pottery. As their neighbors, particularly the Macedonian prince Alexander the Great, grew stronger, ancient Persia struggled to maintain its authority. Despite their eventual decline, the Persian empires had significant influence on the ancient world, including the idea of worshipping a single god. As the first monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism would lay the foundation for the development of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Empires of Ancient Persia looks at the rise and fall of the Persian empires, the daily life of the people, and their influence on subsequent civilizations.
Author | : A. T. Olmstead |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2022-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226826333 |
Out of a lifetime of study of the ancient Near East, Professor Olmstead has gathered previously unknown material into the story of the life, times, and thought of the Persians, told for the first time from the Persian rather than the traditional Greek point of view. "The fullest and most reliable presentation of the history of the Persian Empire in existence."—M. Rostovtzeff
Author | : Abolqasem Ferdowsi |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1041 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1101993235 |
The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran—now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language edition A Penguin Classic Dick Davis—“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” (The Washington Post)—has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2014-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748677119 |
This book explores the representation of Persian monarchy and the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and through the sometimes distorted prism of Classical authors.
Author | : Amélie Kuhrt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1662 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113601702X |
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 translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding of the history and working os this remarkable political entity. The Achaemenid empire developed in the region of modern Fars (Islam) and expanded to unite territories stretching from the Segean and Egypt in the west to Central Asia and north-west India, which it ruled for over 200 years until its conquest by Alexander of Macedon. Although all these regions had long since been in contact with each other, they had never been linked under a single regime. The Persian empire represents an important phase of transformation for its subjects, such as the Jews, as well as those living on its edges, such as the European Greeks.
Author | : British Museum Dept of Egyptian and |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781016017404 |
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