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Walka Wschodu i Zachodu w literaturze greckiej od Herodota do Prokopiusza z Gazy

Vox Patrum, 2003
Herodotus presented the conflicts between Europe and Asia on both the mythological and historical level and made them one of the main structural and ideological components of his work.
Tomasz Polański
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« Religion and Burial Customs », in : J. Curtis & N. Tallis, eds., Forgotten Empire. The world of Ancient Persia. London, The British Museum Press, 2005, pp. 150-180. [PDF]

, 2007
A first part of this chapter is devoted to religious issues. Despite the many textual and iconographical remains, several issues on the religion of the Achaemenid kings are still not solved. E.g.
Daems, Aurélie
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Plants as Symbols of Power in the Achaemenid Iconography of Ancient Persian Monuments. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2023
Caneva G, Lazzara A, Hosseini Z.
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Imaginations of Persian Power and Kingship in 1 Esdras

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
In this paper, the Story of the Three Bodyguards in 1 Esdras 3–4 is related to Persian royal power and rule as imagined in this Hellenistic-period rewriting.
Maximilian Häberlein
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Understanding each other in the Achaemenid Empire: language contact between satraps and subjects

, 2017
Study of the lingusitic ploicy as it was organized by the Achaemenids (5th-3rd centuries ...
Understanding Each Other in Antiquity, Tavernier, Jan   +1 more
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Ancient Persia and Silent Disability

, 2017
Study on the concept of disability in pre-Islamic Persia under the Achaemenids and the ...
COLORU, Omar
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Unvanquished Demetrios

Karanos
In the now famous Külob inscriptions from Taǧikistān, the son of Euthydemos I of Baktria, Prince Demetrios, is celebrated as “glorious in victory” (παῖς καλλἰνικος), a testament to his role in the defense against the encroaching Antiochos III: a ...
Marco Ferrario
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European Elements in the Military Culture and Weapon Use in Iran [PDF]

Историческое оружиеведение, 2020
The article is devoted to the contacts between Iran and different European countries in the field of weapon use and warfare. The author traces the presence of European arms and military forces in the armies of Iran starting from the days of the ...
Dr. Elena I. Malozyomova
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Achaemenid "ritual architecture" vs. "religious architecture": Reflections on the elusive archaeological evidence of the religion of the Achaemenids. Appendix by A. Askari Chaverdi, P Callieri: the monumental buidling of Tol-e Ajori (pp. 394-97).

, 2017
In the frame of the congress dedicated by the Collège de France to the issue of the religion of Iran during the Achaemenid period, the author was asked to present a contribution regarding the archaeological evidence of Achaemenid age regarding religion.
Callieri Pierfrancesco
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Fitness and Power: The Contribution of Genetics to the History of Differential Reproduction. [PDF]

Evol Psychol, 2021
Scheidel W.
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