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Author: I. Gershevitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-06-06
Total Pages: 1030
ISBN-13: 9780521200912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 2 covers the period from the formation of the first multi-national empire to Alexander's conquest.
Author: I. Gershevitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985-06-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521200912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second volume describes the formation, in the sixth century BC, of the earliest multi-national empire, its administration, its confrontation with Greece, and its eventual dissolution under the impact of Alexander's conquest of Iran in 331 BC. This was a time of great importance in the history of the entire Middle East, and embraced figures of the stature of Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes. The sources for this period are more diverse than for any other in Iran's history, the bulk of the evidence being preserved in Babylonian, Elamite, Egyptian and Greek. The involvement in this volume of specialists in each of these fields has ensured that the results of the intensive research of recent years are incorporated in this synthesis. In addition to the strictly historical accounts there are chapters on art and architecture, metalwork and glyptic, calendar systems, weights and measures, religion, and the eastern Iranian world as reflected in the Avesta.
Author: Peter Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-02-06
Total Pages: 1206
ISBN-13: 9780521200943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers all aspects of the history of Iran from the collapse of the Il-Khanid empire (c.1335) to the second of quarter of the 18th century
Author: W. B. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1968-10
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780521069359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume I is devoted to the geography, geology, anthropology, economic life, and flora and fauna, setting the physical stage for the human events which follow.
Author: Edith Porada
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 946
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 3110476878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.
Author: Bruce Lincoln
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9004460292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.
Author: Chloë Houston
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-05-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 3031226186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of the representation of the Persian empire in English drama across the early modern period, from the 1530s to the 1690s. The wide focus of this book, encompassing thirteen dramatic entertainments, both canonical and little-known, allow it to trace the changes and developments in the dramatic use of Persia and its people across one and a half centuries. It explores what Persia signified to English playwrights and audiences in this period; the ideas and associations conjured up by mention of ‘Persia’; and where information about Persia came from. It also considers how ideas about Persia changed with the development of global travel and trade, as English people came into people with Persians for the first time. In addressing these issues, this book provides an examination not only of the representation of Persia in dramatic material, but of the broader relationship between travel, politics and the theatre in early modern England.
Author: Tom Holland
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2007-06-12
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0307386988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.
Author: Margaux Whiskin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1838608761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and historical representations of the 'other' and the ways in which these have been constructed in, and often in spite of, their specific historical contexts. Many of these narratives, for example, have their origin in the ancient world but have since been altered, recycled and manipulated to fit a particular agenda. Ranging from Tacitus, Leonidas and Xerxes via Shahriar Mandanipour and Azar Nafisi to Rosewater, Argo and 300, this inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for anyone working on the complex history, present and future of Iranian-Western relations.
