Persian Responses

Political and Cultural Interaction With(in) the Achaemenid Empire

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2007
Classical Press of Wales (Verlag)
978-1-905125-18-0 (ISBN)

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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 empire's diversity and the nature of the 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.

Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. His publications include The Failings of Empire; Achaemenid Studies; Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture (co-editor with T.E.Rihll), Pontus and the Outside World (editor); Xenophon and his World (editor), and numerous research papers, mostly on the history or historiography of Achaemenid Persia and Classical Greece.

Thucydides' Portrait of Tissaphernes Re-Examined (John Hyland); Xenophon's Wicked Persian, or What's Wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's Views on Lying and Breaking Oaths (Gabriel Danzig); On Persian Tryphe 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 Lloyd); Indigenous Aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia (Frederic Maffre); Hellenization and Lycian Cults during the Achaemenid Period (Eric Raimond); Babylonian Workers in the Persian Heartland during the reign of Cambyses (Wouter Henkelman & Kristin Kleber); Reading Persepolis in Greek: the Gifts of the Yauna (Margaret Cool Root); 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).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.11.2007
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Swansea
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-905125-18-6 / 1905125186
ISBN-13	978-1-905125-18-0 / 9781905125180
Zustand	Neuware