Persian responses
Subtitle: political and cultural interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire
By: edited by Christopher Tuplin ; contributors, Lindsay Allen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Tuplin, Christopher.
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales; Distributed in the UK by Oxbow; Distributed in the USA by David Brown
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Swansea [Wales]; Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781905125180
Subjects: Achaemenid dynasty, -- 559-330 B.C.; Iran -- Civilization -- To 640.; Iran -- History -- To 640.; Iran -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Christopher Tuplin; value: Thucydides' portrait of Tissaphernes re-examined / John O. Hyland; value: Xenophon's wicked Persian, or What's wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's views on lying and breaking oaths / Gabriel Danzig; value: On Persian tryphē in Athenaeus / Dominique Lenfant; value: Treacherous hearts and upright tiaras: the Achaemenid king's head-dress / Christopher Tuplin; value: Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis / Alan B. Lloyd; value: Indigenous aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia / Frédéric Maffre; value: Hellenization and Lycian cults during the Achaemenid period / Eric A. Raimond; value: Babylonian workers in the Persian heartland : palace building at Matannan in the reign of Cambyses / Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Kristin Kleber; value: Reading Persepolis in Greek : gifts of the Yauna / Margaret; value: Boxus the Persian and the hellenization of Persis / Nicholas Sekunda; value: The philosopher's Zarathushtra / Phiroze Vasunia; value: Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? / Robin Lane Fox; value: 'Chilminar olim Persepolis' : European reception of a Persian ruin / Lindsay Allen; value: Pottering around Persepolis : observations on early European visitors to the site / St. John Simpson.