Title: Writing ancient Persia /
Authors: Harrison, Thomas, 1969-
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Achaemenid dynasty,; Achaemenid dynasty,; Historiography Greece; Iran History Historiography.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Against the grain -- The Persian version -- Family fortunes -- Live and let live -- Terra incognita -- concluding hostilities.