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Religion Compass, 2014
Abstract “Achaemenid religion” was the religion of the rulers of Iran in the second half of the first millennium BCE and the local form of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of the Iranians. The earliest form of Zoroastrianism is known from the Avesta, their sacred texts, which probably originated in the last half of the second and ...
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Abstract “Achaemenid religion” was the religion of the rulers of Iran in the second half of the first millennium BCE and the local form of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of the Iranians. The earliest form of Zoroastrianism is known from the Avesta, their sacred texts, which probably originated in the last half of the second and ...
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Satrapal Sardis: Achaemenid Bowls in an Achaemenid Capital
American Journal of Archaeology, 1999Sardis, capital of Lydia and seat of the Mermnad dynasty, was made a regional capital of the Achaemenid Persian empire after Lydia was conquered by the expanding empire. Guided by Herodotos, most people have thought that the Lydian era was the period of greatest interest in the history of Sardis.
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American Journal of Archaeology, 2006
A comprehensive exhibition devoted to the material culture of the Achaemenid empire may seem logical (and even long overdue) to archaeologists of the ancient Near East and others who are familiar with the period from about 550 to 330 B.C.E., when a series of Persian kings based in Fars (southern Iran) created the largest territorial empire the world ...
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A comprehensive exhibition devoted to the material culture of the Achaemenid empire may seem logical (and even long overdue) to archaeologists of the ancient Near East and others who are familiar with the period from about 550 to 330 B.C.E., when a series of Persian kings based in Fars (southern Iran) created the largest territorial empire the world ...
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2019
The final chapter considers briefly how Ptolemaic ideology and propaganda have refashioned the memory of Achaemenid rule into something explicitly negative, thus coloring all subsequent accounts of the period. It then discusses and recapitulates how studying experience provides a way around these Greek-influenced accounts of the Persians, and provide a
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The final chapter considers briefly how Ptolemaic ideology and propaganda have refashioned the memory of Achaemenid rule into something explicitly negative, thus coloring all subsequent accounts of the period. It then discusses and recapitulates how studying experience provides a way around these Greek-influenced accounts of the Persians, and provide a
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2009
Abstract The Achaemenid (Persian) Empire was the largest of all ancient Near Eastern “world empires,” spanning from Egypt to Central Asia and the Indus region. Its formation began after 550 B.C.E. when the petty king Cyrus of Anshan/Fars in southwestern Iran and his son Cambyses conquered the mighty Medes and the empires of Lydia ...
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Abstract The Achaemenid (Persian) Empire was the largest of all ancient Near Eastern “world empires,” spanning from Egypt to Central Asia and the Indus region. Its formation began after 550 B.C.E. when the petty king Cyrus of Anshan/Fars in southwestern Iran and his son Cambyses conquered the mighty Medes and the empires of Lydia ...
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2021
Abstract The Achaemenid Persian Empire was history’s first hyperpower, ruling much of the known earth from the reign of Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth century to the defeat of Darius III by Alexander of Macedon in 331 bce. The Achaemenid Empire’s evident debt to its predecessors in Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia may be contrasted with a ...
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Abstract The Achaemenid Persian Empire was history’s first hyperpower, ruling much of the known earth from the reign of Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth century to the defeat of Darius III by Alexander of Macedon in 331 bce. The Achaemenid Empire’s evident debt to its predecessors in Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia may be contrasted with a ...
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