Persian responses : political and cultural interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire

Weitere Verfasser: Allen, Lindsay.
Tuplin, Christopher.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Swansea : Oxford : Oakville, CT : Classical Press of Wales ; Distributed in the UK by Oxbow ; Distributed in the USA by David Brown, 2007.
Ausgabe: 1. publ.
Umfang/Format: xxv, 373 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Christopher Tuplin
  • Thucydides' portrait of Tissaphernes re-examined / John O. Hyland
  • Xenophon's wicked Persian, or What's wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's views on lying and breaking oaths / Gabriel Danzig
  • On Persian tryphē in Athenaeus / Dominique Lenfant
  • Treacherous hearts and upright tiaras: the Achaemenid king's head-dress / Christopher Tuplin
  • Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis / Alan B. Lloyd
  • Indigenous aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia / Frédéric Maffre
  • Hellenization and Lycian cults during the Achaemenid period / Eric A. Raimond
  • Babylonian workers in the Persian heartland : palace building at Matannan in the reign of Cambyses / Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Kristin Kleber
  • Reading Persepolis in Greek : gifts of the Yauna / Margaret
  • Boxus the Persian and the hellenization of Persis / Nicholas Sekunda
  • The philosopher's Zarathushtra / Phiroze Vasunia
  • Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? / Robin Lane Fox
  • 'Chilminar olim Persepolis' : European reception of a Persian ruin / Lindsay Allen
  • Pottering around Persepolis : observations on early European visitors to the site / St. John Simpson.