Writing Ancient Persia: Duckworth Classical Essays
Harrison (ancient history and classical archeology, U. of Liverpool) examines how histories of the Achaemedid Persian empire have been, are being, and might be written. He is a historian of Greece not Persia, he explains, but most of the sources for the period are Greek, though he actually focuses here on the earlier part of the period, for which Persian sources are more plentiful and only Herodotus'provide a Greek perspective.