Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Securities

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Published: 1980

Total Pages: 828

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The history of Achaemenid Persia ù the empire of Cyrus the Great, Darius and Xerxes ù has largely been rewritten in the last thirty years. Inspired by new sources of information, and by a determination to see Persia in its own terms, historians have created a powerful new image of the Persian Empire: tightly organised and resilient, tolerant towards the religions and cultures of its subject peoples, and with kings and queens whose concerns were pragmatic rather than whimsically despotic.