Title
Ancient Persia : a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE / Matt Waters, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
ISBN
9781107009608 hardcover alkaline paper
110700960X hardcover alkaline paper
9780521253697 paperback alkaline paper
0521253691 paperback alkaline paper
Publication Details
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xx, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
DS281 .W38 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
935/.05
Summary
"The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview of the Achaemenid period while considering the manifold interpretive problems historians face in constructing and understanding its history. This book offers a Persian perspective even when relying on Greek textual sources and archaeological evidence. Waters situates the story of the Achaemenid Persians in the context of their predecessors in the mid-first millennium BCE and through their successors after the Macedonian conquest, constructing a compelling narrative of how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c. 550-330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on Middle Eastern as well as Greek and European history."--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-229) and index.
Tracking an empire
Forerunners of the Achaemenids : the first half of the first millennium BCE
Persia rising : a new empire
From Cyrus to Darius I : empire in transition
Darius, the great king
Mechanics of empire
Xerxes, the expander of the realm
Anatomy of empire
Empire at large : from the death of Xerxes to Darius II
Maintaining an empire : Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III
Twilight of the Achaemenids.
