@article{710559,
      recid = {710559},
      author = {Waters, Matthew W.},
      title = {Ancient Persia : a concise history of the Achaemenid  Empire, 550-330 BCE /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {New York, NY, USA  :},
      pages = {xx, 252 pages :},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/710559},
}