Excavating an empire
Subtitle: Achaemenid Persia in Longue Durée
By: edited by Touraj Daryaee, Ali Mousavi and Khodadad Rezakhani
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Costa Mesa, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781568592985
Subjects: History; Ancient History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: PART I. History; title: The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World History (550-330 BCE) / T. Daryaee and Kh. Rezakhani; title: Designation of the Empire and Its Political Concepts of Darius I according to Old Persian Records / C. Herrenschmidt; title: "An Admirer of Persian Ways" : Alexander the Great's Reforms in Parthia-Hyrcania and the Iranian Heritage / M.J. Olbrycht; title: Darius the First, the Ninth King / M. Waters; title: PART II. Archaeology and Material Culture; title: The Pre-Imperial Persians at the Land of Anshan : Some Preliminary Observations / K. Abdi & M.-T. Atayi; title: The Cultural Heritage of the Aristocracy of Persis during the Hellenistic Period / P. Callieri; title: The Achaemenid Coinage : Regal and Satrapal Coins / A. Gariboldi; title: Sailing to Pasargadae / D.T. Potts; title: The Palace Architecture of the Achaemenids under Scrutiny : an Approach to the Problem of its Origin / A. Tourovetz; title: Landscape, Sources and Architecture at the Archaeological Remains of Achaemenid Sīstān (East Iran) : Dahān-i Gholāmān / B. Genito; title: PART III. Religion and Culture; title: Ancestors, Corpses, Kings, and the Land : Symbolic Constructs in Ancient India and Iran / B. Lincoln; title: The Achaemenian Power Between Tolerance and Authoritarianism : Possible or Impossible Comparison with Modern Phenomena / A. Panaino; title: "Excellence in Soul and Nobly Bred to Grandeur" : Contemporary External Texts Relating to Achaemenid Belief and Practice / J. Rose; title: PART IV. Remembering the Achaemenids; title: Ancient Persia in Cinema / W. Soward.