Ancient Persia : a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE /
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...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014
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| Vydání: | First published |
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
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Ancient Persia :a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE |
Obsah:
- 1., Introduction: tracking an empire
- 2., Forerunners of the Achaemenids: the first half of the first millennium BCE
- 3., Persia rising: a new empire
- 4., From Cyrus to Darius I: empire in transition
- 5., Darius, the great king
- 6., Mechanics of empire
- 7., Xerxes, the expander of the realm
- 8., Anatomy of empire
- 9., Empire at large: from the death of Xerxes to Darius II
- 10., Maintaining empire: Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III
- 11., Twilight of the Achaemenids
- 12., Epilogue