In this succinct history of ancient Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty rulers, Matt Waters examines how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550â 330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on subsequent Near Eastern and European history.
In this succinct history of ancient Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty rulers, Matt Waters examines how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550â 330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on subsequent Near Eastern and European history.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Matt Waters is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He is the author of A Survey of Neo-Elamite History (2000), and his work has appeared in numerous journals, including Iran, Revue d'Assyriologie and the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Waters is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities. He was awarded the Jonas C. Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society in 2006 for the best published article in ancient Near Eastern studies in a three-year period by a scholar under the age of forty.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: tracking an empire 2. Forerunners of the Achaemenids: the first half of the first millennium BCE 3. Persia rising: a new empire 4. From Cyrus to Darius I: empire in transition 5. Darius the king 6. Mechanics of empire 7. Xerxes, the expander of the realm 8. Anatomy of empire 9. Empire at large: from the death of Xerxes to Darius II 10. Maintaining empire: Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III 11. Twilight of the Achaemenids 12. Epilogue Appendix A. Timeline Appendix B. Chronological chart of Achaemenid Persian kings Appendix C. Lineages (family tree) of the Achaemenid royal family Appendix D. Further readings.
1. Introduction: tracking an empire 2. Forerunners of the Achaemenids: the first half of the first millennium BCE 3. Persia rising: a new empire 4. From Cyrus to Darius I: empire in transition 5. Darius the king 6. Mechanics of empire 7. Xerxes, the expander of the realm 8. Anatomy of empire 9. Empire at large: from the death of Xerxes to Darius II 10. Maintaining empire: Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III 11. Twilight of the Achaemenids 12. Epilogue Appendix A. Timeline Appendix B. Chronological chart of Achaemenid Persian kings Appendix C. Lineages (family tree) of the Achaemenid royal family Appendix D. Further readings.
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