Kings, countries, peoples: selected studies on the Achaemenid Empire

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- WORKS BY PIERRE BRIANT -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Central Power and Cultural Polycentrism in the Achaemenid Empire -- PART I - ACHAEMENID ASIA MINOR -- 2 Droaphernes and the Sardis Statue -- 3 Cities and Satraps in the Achaemenid Empire: Xanthos and Pixo...

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1. VerfasserIn: Briant, Pierre 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Kuhrt, Amélie 1944-2023 (ÜbersetzerIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag 2017
In: Oriens et occidens (Band 26)
Jahr: 2017
Rezensionen:Das Perserreich der Achämeniden in moderner Perspektive (2022) (Messerschmidt, Wolfgang)
[Rezension von: Pierre Briant, Kings, countries, peoples : Selected studies on the Achaemenid Empire] (2020) (Klingenberg, Andreas, 1978 -)
[Rezension von: Pierre Briant, Kings, countries, peoples : Selected studies on the Achaemenid Empire] (2020) (Colburn, Henry P.)
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Oriens et occidens Band 26
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Achämeniden / Geschichte
weitere Schlagwörter:B Aufsatzsammlung
B Electronic books
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Zusammenfassung:Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- WORKS BY PIERRE BRIANT -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Central Power and Cultural Polycentrism in the Achaemenid Empire -- PART I - ACHAEMENID ASIA MINOR -- 2 Droaphernes and the Sardis Statue -- 3 Cities and Satraps in the Achaemenid Empire: Xanthos and Pixodaros -- 4 The History and Archaeology of a Text: the Letter of Darius to Gadatas between Persians, Greeks and Romans -- PART II - ACHAEMENID EGYPT -- 5 The Ruling Class and Subject Populations in the Achaemenid Empire: the Egyptian example -- 6 A strange affair at Elephantine in 410 B. C. Widranga, the sanctuary of Khnûm and the temple of Yahweh -- 7 When Kings write History: the Persian period in Ptolemaic inscriptions -- 8 Multilingual Inscriptions of the Achaemenid Period: text and image -- 9 Herodotus, Udjahorresnet and Darius' Palace at Susa -- PART III - THE GREAT KING, LAND AND WATER -- 10 Sheep Breeding in the Achaemenid Empire (Sixth to Fourth Centuries B. C.) -- 11 On the King as Gardener: observations on the history of a set of documents -- 12 The Drinking Water of the Great King -- 13 Polybius X 28 and the qanāts: the evidence and its limitations -- 14 Montesquieu and his Sources: Alexander, the Persian Empire, the Guebres and Irrigation -- 15 The State, the Earth and Water between the Nile and Syr Darya -- PART IV - COMMUNICATIONS AND EXCHANGE -- 16 From Sardis to Susa -- 17 Themistocles on the Royal Road -- 18 [with Raymond Descat] A customs register from the satrapy of Egypt in the Achaemenid period (TAD C3,7) -- 19 Tribute payments and exchange in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Asia Minor -- PART V - THE TRANSITIONFROM THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE TO ALEXANDERAND THE HELLENISTIC KINGDOMS -- 20 From the Achaemenids to the Hellenistic Rulers: continuities and changes.
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ISBN:3515116354