The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE
| 1. Verfasser: |
Canepa, Matthew P., 1975-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
2018.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xiii, 494 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780520964365, |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780520964365 |
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| Online-Zugang: |
Available online Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : conceptualizing Iran and building Iranian empires
- Ordering the earth and building the First Persian Empire
- The destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the creation of Seleucid Iran
- The rise of the Arsacids and a new Iranian topography of power
- Rival visions, ancient landscapes, and new royal identities in post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus
- Sasanian rupture and renovation
- Persian religion and Achaemenid sacred spaces
- The Seleucid transformation of Iranian sacred spaces
- Ancient sacred landscapes and new royal identities in Anatolia and the Caucasus
- Iranian funerary landscapes
- Dynastic sanctuaries
- Reshaping the Persian monumental and ritual legacy and building a new vision of the Kayanid past
- The creation of a primordial Iranian sacred topography
- Persian palatial cosmologies
- The Seleucid transformation Persian palatial architecture and a new Iranian tradition under the Arsacids
- The palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World
- Earthly paradises.
