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The Achaemenid empire and the sea

Mediterranean Historical Review, 2012
This article looks at the conquest of the sea as a way of projecting world rule during the Achaemenid period. It starts by tracing the ancient Near Eastern tradition whereby successive rulers had to prove themselves by conquering the sea, from mythical kings such as Gilgames and Sargon of Akkad down to Cyrus the Great and his successors.
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The Achaemenid Empire

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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Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire

2015
Abstract The present contribution treats taxation in the Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire, which lasted from 538 to 330 b.c.e. Its focus lies on information derived from the cuneiform texts discovered in Babylonia and Iran. Until very recently, Greek authors, in particular Herodotus, were used almost exclusively as sources of ...
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Phoenicia Under the Achaemenid Empire

2019
This chapter covers several aspects of Achaemenid Phoenicia, including literary sources, epigraphy, numismatics, and material culture. Achaemenid Phoenicia was characterized by a continuity of material culture from the Neo-Babylonian period. The extant sources—literary, epigraphic, and numismatic—evince a conglomerate of independent city-states ...
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Attic Pottery in the Achaemenid Empire

American Journal of Archaeology, 1977
Attic pottery in the sixth to fourth centuries B.C. achieves a fairly broad range within the Persian Empire, taking in Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, the Nile Valley down to Nubia, and, in a limited quantity, appearing at the distant capitals of Babylon and Susa.' Within this range, the same types of Attic pots turn up from site to site, most of ...
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The Achaemenid Empire: a Babylonian perspective

Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1988
For over 2000 years views of the Persian empire founded by Cyrus c. 550 B.C. and conquered by Alexander in the space of ten years between 334 and 323 have been constructed on the basis of Greek literary sources (in which I would include historical works, such as Herodotus' histories) and some sections of the Old Testament.
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The “End” of the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: Caesura and Transformation in Dialogue

Universal- Und Kulturhistorische Studien, 2022
Julian Degen, Robert Rollinger, Rollinger Robert   +2 more
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The Achaemenid ‘Empire’

The Classical Review, 1999
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Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2002
Elizabeth P. Baughan, Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre   +1 more
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The Achaemenid Persian Empire

2017
William H. Stiebing, Susan N. Helft
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