Download The Persians (Peoples of the Ancient World) (1st Edition) by Maria Brosius PDF
By Maria Brosius
The one publication of its type to hide either the Achaemenid interval and the thousand years following Alexander's conquest, The Persians explores the interval from the 7th century BC, to the 7th century advert, and offers a complete creation to old Persia.
Incorporating fresh examine, and translated assets from a variety of corpus fabric, Maria Brosius explores the heritage of Persia, and brings a brand new realizing of Persian society and tradition and the constructions on which those empires have been equipped: the king and his court docket; faith and tradition; paintings and architecture.
From the lands of Egypt to the Indus River, from the Russian Steppes to the Indian Ocean, Brosius has supplied an up to date account of the 3 empires of pre-Islamic Iran, and discussing key themes equivalent to ladies, faith and paintings and structure, she offers a transparent survey of the heritage of those empires.
Providing extra interpreting references besides widespread resource citations, scholars of historical Persia will locate this a useful addition to their direction reviews.
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In Asia Minor he demonstrated his respect for the Greek god Apollo by reprimanding his Magnesian satrap Gadatas for collecting taxes from the sacred land belonging to the temple. The King of Kings, Darius, son of Hystaspes, to Gadatas, his slave, thus speaks: I find that you are not completely obedient concerning my orders. Because you are cultivating my land, transplanting fruit trees from the province Beyond-the-Euphrates to the western Asiatic regions, I praise your purpose, and in consequence there will be laid up in store for you great favour in the royal house.
In 341 Athens dispatched an embassy to Persia in an attempt to negotiate Persian aid against Macedon. When Philip attacked Perinthus at the Hellespont in 340, Artaxerxes III ordered the satraps of Asia Minor to send mercenary troops and supplies for the city. The Macedonians were forced to withdraw, but then moved to attack Byzantium. In October 340 Athens declared war on Philip, having secured the support of the islands of Chios, Rhodes and Cos, and, most importantly, of Persia. The Persian–Athenian alliance effectively meant that Philip’s ambitions of a Macedonian hegemony over Greece could not be fulfilled.
While Greek sources describe Artaxerxes III as a victim of a palace coup who was murdered with the aid of the chiliarch Bagoas, a Babylonian document simply states ‘Month Ulul (August/September), Umakush (Artaxerxes III) (went to his) fate; his son Arshu sat on the throne’ (BM 71537; Walker 1997: 22). The expression ‘to go to one’s fate’ is a known Babylonian phrase to express a person’s death, and is meant to refer to a death by natural causes. If so, then Greek descriptions of a court intrigue surrounding the death of Artaxerxes III have to be regarded with scepticism.