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Author Jamzadeh, Parivash, author.

Title Alexander Histories and Iranian Reflections : Remnants of Propaganda and Resistance / by Parivash Jamzadeh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages)
Series Studies in Persian Cultural History ; v. 3
Studies in Persian cultural history ; v. 3.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Plight of the Achaemenid Royal Women -- 1. According to Ancestral Custom -- 2. Alexander and Darius' Mother -- 3. Alexander and Darius' Wife -- 4. Alexander and the Granddaughter of Ochus -- 5. Episodes in Cyropaedia -- Chapter Two Darius' Letters to Alexander and the Responses: Ideology of Conquest in Retrospect -- Chapter Three The Campaign for Persia in Iranian & Zoroastrian Lights -- 1. Alexander's Advances and Tribulations -- 2. Mutilated Greek Captives' Story -- 3. Persepolis' Final Fate and the Sources' Arguments -- Chapter Four Darius' Last Days & Counter-Propagandas -- Chapter Five Bessus' Fate -- Chapter Six Alexander's Persian Attire -- Chapter Seven Reflections from Darius I's Rhetoric -- 1. Alexander as a Mock-Divinity -- 2. The Incident of Cyrus' Tomb -- 3. The King and the Ideology of Truth -- 4. Bessus' Punishment -- 5. Darius I's World Order -- Chapter Eight Zoroastrian Echoes in Alexander Histories -- 1. Zoroastrian References in the Story of Clitus -- 2. The Boar Motif and its Zoroastrian Relevance -- 3. The Sogdian Campaign and its Zoroastrian Features -- 4. Iranian and Zoroastrian Features of Hephaestion's Funeral -- Chapter Nine Iranian Echoes in Mutiny's Accounts -- Chapter Ten Alexander's Final Days and Iranian Reflections -- Chapter Eleven Alexander's Entombment and Iranian Echoes -- Chapter Twelve The Plight of Alexander's Family -- Chapter Thirteen Reverence for the Fravashī of Alexander -- Chapter Fourteen Testimony of Zoroastrian Sources -- Chapter Fifteen Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- index
Summary Parivash Jamzadeh demonstrates how the propaganda material used during Alexander the Great's military campaign to conquer the Achaemenid empire shows multiple layers of Iranian influences. She also shows that the studied sources do not always offer an accurate account of the contemporary Iranian customs and occasionally included historical inaccuracies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Travel -- Iran
Darius I, King of Persia, 548 B.C.-485 B.C.
SUBJECT Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast
Darius I, King of Persia, 548 B.C.-485 B.C. fast
Subject Historiography
Military campaigns
Propaganda
War -- Religious aspects
Travel
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. -- Campaigns -- Iran
Iran -- History -- Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C. -- Historiography
Iran -- History -- Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C. -- Propaganda
Iran -- History -- Macedonian Conquest, 334-325 B.C. -- Religious aspects
Iran -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067895
Subject Greece
Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012014205
ISBN 9789004217522
9004217525
9789004217522
9781283578974
1283578972
9786613891426
6613891428