Persians
Subtitle: The Age of the Great Kings
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2022
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781541600348
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: At the Nowruz festival in the spring of 488 BCE, the time in which the Persians celebrated their New Year with feasting, partying, and gift-giving, Darius, Great King, King of Kings, King of All Lands, the Achaemenid, sat on his throne in the heart of his palace-city of Persepolis and magnanimously received the homage of his empire.
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: ix; title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: xi; title: Map
pagenum: xv; title: Family Tree
pagenum: xvi; label: Prologue
title: Persepolis 488 BCE
pagenum: 1; title: Introduction
pagenum: 5; label: One
title: Establishing Empire; label: 1
title: The Medes and the Persians
pagenum: 33; label: 2
title: See, the Conqu’ring Hero Comes
pagenum: 48; label: 3
title: The Many Deaths — and Births — of Cyrus the Great
pagenum: 75; label: 4
title: The Septre of Egypt
pagenum: 88; label: 5
title: The Truth and the Lie
pagenum: 99; label: Two
title: Being Persian; label: 6
title: When Bureaucrats Ruled the World
pagenum: 127; label: 7
title: A Court under Canvas
pagenum: 148; label: 8
title: Constructing Majesty
pagenum: 155; label: 9
title: Slavery by Another Name
pagenum: 166; label: 10
title: Crowns and Concubines
pagenum: 173; label: 11
title: The Politics of Etiquette
pagenum: 193; label: 12
title: Also Sprach Zarathustra
pagenum: 202; label: Three
title: High Empire; label: 13
title: Exit Darius
pagenum: 225; label: 14
title: Ruling Over Heroes
pagenum: 233; label: 15
title: Let Slip the Dogs of War
pagenum: 244; label: 16
title: Les Liaisons dangereuses
pagenum: 263; label: 17
title: The Times They are a-Changin’
pagenum: 275; label: 18
title: (Un)Happy Families
pagenum: 291; label: 19
title: Blood Brothers
pagenum: 300; label: 20
title: Women Beware Women
pagenum: 320; label: 21
title: Violent Delights Have Violent Ends
pagenum: 335; label: 22
title: Some Talk of Alexander
pagenum: 353; label: Epilogue
title: Persian Past; Iranian Present
pagenum: 375; title: Dramatis Personae
pagenum: 399; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 408; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 417; title: Index
pagenum: 419; title: About the Author
pagenum: 432