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The Achaemenid Chiliarch par excellence
Historia, 2016There has been recent debate over whether the commander of the Great King's infantry or cavalry bodyguard, the melophoroi or 'Apple Bearers' and the syngeneis hippeis or 'Kinsmen Cavalry' respectively, was the preeminent chiliarch in Achaemenid Persia.
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2005
Abstract Panhellenists delighted to sneer at Persia and Persians, especially at their military performance. Isocrates above all argued that whether Persia was strong or weak the Greeks should unite in attacking it but that in fact Persia would be easily overcome (cf. 4. 139–57). This was not, he conceded (4. 138, 5.
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Abstract Panhellenists delighted to sneer at Persia and Persians, especially at their military performance. Isocrates above all argued that whether Persia was strong or weak the Greeks should unite in attacking it but that in fact Persia would be easily overcome (cf. 4. 139–57). This was not, he conceded (4. 138, 5.
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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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The Achaemenid Throne-leg Design
Iranica Antiqua, 1996Etude des elements iconographiques et stylistiques deliberement choisis pour orner les pieds des trones royaux achemenides. L'A etudie egalement l'evolution de ce modele a la periode achemenide et ses survivances dans les representations figuratives et le mobilier d'epoques hellenistique, parthe et ...
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2019
The introductory chapter provides some historical context for the study of Achaemenid Egypt. This period in Egyptian history is an orphan of sorts, falling between the earlier periods, of great interest to Egyptologists, and the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, of great interest to classicists.
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The introductory chapter provides some historical context for the study of Achaemenid Egypt. This period in Egyptian history is an orphan of sorts, falling between the earlier periods, of great interest to Egyptologists, and the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, of great interest to classicists.
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The Achaemenid–Ptolemaic Transition:
2021Andrea M. Berlin, Sharon C. Herbert
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Abstract The beginning of the Persian period was steeped in a complicated process of annexing past traditions within the new imperial context begun by Cyrus the Great. This was intensified as the Achaenemid dynasty came to power under Darius I, who commemorated his triumph with the forging of the Behistun Inscription. As Darius tells it,
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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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