The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

by Amélie Kuhrt, Amelie Kuhrt, Kuhrt a.

Book Overview

Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated translations, together with introductions to the problems of using it in order to gain an understanding of the history and working os this remarkable political entity.

The Achaemenid empire developed in the region of modern Fars (Islam) and expanded to unite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415552796
• ISBN13: 9780415552790
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 1072 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"