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1 online resource |
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Alte Geschichte |
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Oriens et occidens ; Band 26 |
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Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
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Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 26.
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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 |
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6 A strange affair at Elephantine in 410 B.C. Widranga, the sanctuary of Khnûm and the temple of Yahweh7 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 |
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13 Polybius X 28 and the qanāts: the evidence and its limitations14 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 |
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20 From the Achaemenids to the Hellenistic Rulers: continuities and changes21 Michael Rostovtzeff and the transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World; 22 Greco-Hellenistic Sources, Persian and Macedonian Institutions: continuities, changes and 'bricolages'; 23 Alexander in Sardis; 24 The Institutions of Achaemenid Sardis: an additional remark; 25 The Iranians of Asia Minor after the fall of the Achaemenid empire: the Amyzon inscription; 26 From Sardis to Persepolis: the royal economy between private and public; 27 Asia Minor in Transition |
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28 The katarraktai of the Tigris: irrigation-works, commerce and shipping in Elam and Babylonia from Darius to AlexanderINDEX OF NAMES; INDEX OF PLACES AND PEOPLE; INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 17, 2020) |
| Subject |
Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C.
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| SUBJECT |
Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C. fast |
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Achaemenid history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98041220
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Iran -- History -- To 640.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067896
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Iran
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kuhrt, Amélie, 1944- translator.
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| ISBN |
3515116354 |
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9783515116350 |
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