Ancient Persia: a concise history of the Achaemenid empire, 550-330 BCE
The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Dans: | Année: 2014 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Iran (Antiquité)
/ Achämeniden
/ Histoire 559 avant J.-C.-330 avant J.-C.
B Iran (Antiquité) / Histoire 550 avant J.-C.-330 avant J.-C. |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Iran
History, To 640
B Achaemenid dynasty (559-330 B.C) B Iran History To 640 B Achaemenid dynasty |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview of the Achaemenid period while considering the manifold interpretive problems historians face in constructing and understanding its history. This book offers a Persian perspective even when relying on Greek textual sources and archaeological evidence. Waters situates the story of the Achaemenid Persians in the context of their predecessors in the mid-first millennium BCE and through their successors after the Macedonian conquest, constructing a compelling narrative of how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550–330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on Middle Eastern as well as Greek and European history |
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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource (XIX, 252 S.), Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-84188-0 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511841880 |
