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The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period book cover

1st Edition

The Persian Empire A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

By Amélie Kuhrt Copyright 2010
1072 Pages
by Routledge

496 Pages
by Routledge
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Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding of the history and working os this remarkable political entity. The Achaemenid empire developed in the... Read more

1. The Sources  Part I. Prehistory and Formation of the Empire (c.750-520)  2. The Medes  3. Cyrus the Great  4. The Reign of Cambyses  5. From Cambyses to Darius I  Part II. Achaemenid History and its Problems  6. The Empire under Darius I: Expansion, Revolt, Consolidation  7. The Reign of Xerxes  8. From Artaxerxes I to Darius II's Last Years   9. Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III   10. The Fall of the Achaemenid Empire  Part III. Kings and Kingship  11. Images of Empire, Royal Ideology and the Cultic Framework  12. The Organisation of the Court  13. Mechanisms of Power  Part IV. Achaemenid Imperial Organisation  14. Tribute, Tax, Imposts  15. Routes and Communication Networks  16. Bureaucracy, Production, Settlement  17. Unity and Diversity

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Amélie Kuhrt

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