Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions and Classical Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Map
- 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
- Appendix A – Timeline
- Appendix B – Chronological Chart of Achaemenid Persian Kings
- Appendix C – Lineages of the Achaemenid Royal Family
- Appendix D – Further Readings
- Notes
- Index
Appendix D – - Further Readings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions and Classical Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Map
- 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
- Appendix A – Timeline
- Appendix B – Chronological Chart of Achaemenid Persian Kings
- Appendix C – Lineages of the Achaemenid Royal Family
- Appendix D – Further Readings
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The specialized bibliography is wide-ranging. References to specific problems addressed in the text are included in the endnotes for each chapter. Selected examples of illustrative works cited here are primarily in English.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Achemenet: http://www.achemenet.com/
Encyclopaedia Iranica: http://www.iranicaonline.org/
Livius: http://www.livius.org/persia.html
ACHAEMENID HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
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- Ancient PersiaA Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE, pp. 226 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014