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Herodotus’ Perspective on the Persian Empire
Electrum, 2022 This paper reviews the different models commonly used in understanding Herodotus’evidence on the Achaemenid Persian empire. It suggests that these approaches—for example, the assessment of Herodotus’
Thomas Harrison
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Persian Gardens: Meanings, Symbolism, and Design [PDF]
Landscape Online, 2016 Culture and identity in a society can be represented in the architecture and the meanings intertwined with it. In this sense, the architecture and design are the interface for transferring meaning and identity to the nation and future generations ...
Leila Mahmoudi Farahani +2 more
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GREEK CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF PERSIAN TRADITIONS: GIFT-GIVING AND FRIENDSHIP IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
Classical Quarterly, 2021 This article examines gift-giving within the Persian empire and its perception in Greek literary sources. Gift-giving in the Greek world was often framed in the language of friendship, and Greek authors subsequently articulated Persian traditions using ...
S. Ellis
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The Alexander Legend: An Example of Syriac Apocalyptic Literature in the Dawn of Islam [PDF]
Edinost in Dialog, 2022 The article introduces the Syriac Alexander Legend, a text that was written in the context of the Byzantine imperial propaganda and aimed to present the Byzantine Empire as the fourth empire from Daniel’s prophecy on the four kingdoms.
Aljaž Krajnc
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Evaluating the Copies of Şikârî’s Karamannâme
İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2023 Many sources are used to obtain information about history. The oral and written resources from civilizations, such as inscriptions, dictionaries, and literary works, are all important for getting an idea about the past.
Mizan Coşkun Özgür
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Kingdom versus empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia [PDF]
Balcanica, 2016 This paper examines the role of the distinction between the Persian kingdom and the Persian empire drawn in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia with the view to showing that Cyrus’s government of his empire does not lend itself to a darker reading, but rather
Jordović Ivan
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Yau̯nā and Sakā: Identity Constructions at the Margins of the Achaemenid Empire
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 The Achaemenid Empire can be reasonably considered an “empire of peoples” from both an ideological and structural perspective. It included all the lands of the peoples of the world and all people helped to maintain imperial order and prosperity.
Silvia Balatti
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Codicology and Textology of "Entekhab Muntakhab" book [PDF]
پژوهشهای نسخه شناسی و تصحیح متون, 2022 Historiography one of the main branches of the Persian language and culture received a lot of attention during the reign of the Gurkanian Empire in the Indian subcontinent, and many works have emerged in this period.
maryam ahmadi +3 more
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Relics, Images, and Christian Apotropaic Devices in the Roman-Persian Wars (4th-7th Centuries)
Eikón Imago, 2022 This paper analyses the military use of holy relics, images, and other Christian apotropaic devices in the Roman-Persian wars. I examine a wide range of literary evidence from the 4th to the 7th century exploring where, why, and how different Christian ...
Joaquin Serrano del Pozo
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Lecteurs ottomans de manuscrits persans du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 1999 A number of Persian manuscripts in the National Library of France (BnF) came from the Ottoman Empire. A study of the signs and stamps indicating possession of the manuscripts is highly instructive. Some names of those who possessed the works are found in
Francis Richard
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