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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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Persian Royal–Judaean Elite Engagements in the Teispid and Achaemenid Empire: The King’s Acolytes
Iran studies, 2020The Teispid and Achaemenid rulers (559–331 BCE) had a canny way of co-opting the support and loyalty of the many local rulers and elites they encountered as their empire expanded from central Iran ...
Lloyd Llewellyn‐Jones
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Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens and Sparta, 450-386 BCE
, 2020In 479 BCE Xerxes lost his European territories and much of coastal Anatolia. Just under a century later Artaxerxes II recovered Anatolia.
C. Tuplin
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Law, Mercy, and Reconciliation in the Achaemenid Empire
, 2020The kings of the Achaemenid Empire are known for employing a number of particularly gruesome punishments for those who were deemed guilty of rebellion. While it is certainly true that the Achaemenids punished rebels with utmost severity, it is also true ...
Daniel Beckman
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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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Phoenicia Under the Achaemenid Empire
2019This 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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Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire
2015Abstract 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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The Achaemenid empire and the sea
Mediterranean Historical Review, 2012This 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: a Babylonian perspective
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1988For 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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