A modern historian sheds new light on an ancient Greek history of Persia.
This volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists concerned with the afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments throughout the Near East.
... period . REFERENCES Altmann , P. 2014. Tithes for the clergy and taxes for the king : state and temple contributions in Nehemiah . Catholic Biblical Quarterly 76 : 215-229 . Altmann , P. 2016. Economics in Persian - period biblical texts ...
Explores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind.
This book takes a unique and innovative approach to the subject, considering those predecessors to whom the Achaemenid Empire was indebted for its structure, ideology, and self-expression, by examining both written and archaeological ...
This book treats the stories of Cyrus' birth, conquests, and reign through multiple perspectives, grounded in analysis of ancient sources from the Persians, Elamites, Babylonians, Judeans, and Greeks.
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia.
Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Crosscultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire, Oxford, 25–50 Payne, R. 2015, The Reinvention of Iran: The Sasanian Empire and the Huns, in: M. Maas (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Age of ...
... the Lives', CQ n.s. 21: 254–61. Wardman, A. (1974), Plutarch's Lives, Berkeley: University of California Press. Waters, M. (2017), Ctesias' Persica in its Near Eastern Context, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Weiser, W. (1989) ...
... Near East and Greece, especially of the first millennium BCE. Waters is the author of A Survey of Neo-Elamite ... Context (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017), as well as several dozen articles and related publications. He is a ...
He is the author of Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy (2016), in addition to numerous articles on feminism and the ancient novel, exemplarity and ancient rhetoric, tragedy and psychoanalysis, comedy and ancient ...