A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within
long-established disciplines. For Greek historians, the Persians
were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the
aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander. For
Egyptologists and Assyriologists, they belonged to an era that
received scant attention compared with the glory days of the New
Kingdom or the Neo-Assyrian Empire. For most archaeologists, they
were elusive in a material record that lacked a distinctively
Achaemenid imprint. Things have changed now. The empire is an
object of study in its own right, and a community of Achaemenid
specialists has emerged to carry that study forward. Such
communities are, however, apt to talk among themselves and the
present volume aims to give a professional but non-specialist
audience some taste of the variety of subject-matter and discourse
that typifies Achaemenid studies. The broad theme of political and
cultural interaction reflecting the empires diversity and the
nature of our sources for its history is illustrated in fourteen
chapters that move from issues in Greek historiography through a
series of regional studies (Egypt, Anatolia, Babylonia and Persia)
to Zarathushtra, Alexander the Great and the early modern reception
of Persepolis.
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