| Description |
1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Black Sea studies ; 11 |
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Black Sea studies ; 11.
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| Contents |
Achaemenids in the caucasus? / Adele Bill -- Pax Persica and the people of the Black Sea region: extent and limits of Achaemenid imperial ideology / Maria Brosius -- The Labraunda sphinxes / Anne Marie Carstens -- Recent investigations of the Ulski Kurgans / Vladimir R. Erlikh -- Orphic Thrace and Achaemenid Persia / Diana Gergova -- A silver Rhyton with a representation of a winged ibex from the fourth Semibratniy tumulus / Vladimir Goroncharovskij -- Geomagnetic surveys in the territory of Labrys (Semibratnee townsite) in 2006-2008 / Tatiana N. Smekalova -- A Persian Propyleion in Azerbaijan excavations at Karacamirli / Florian Knauss, Iulon Gagoshidze and Ilias Babaev -- Persian imperial policy behind the rise and fall of the Cimmerian Bosporus in the last quarter of the sixth to the beginning of the fifth century BC / Jens Nieling -- The impact of the Achaemenids on Thrace: a historical review / Ellen Rehm -- The classification of objects from the Black Sea region made or influenced by the Achaemenids / Ellen Rehm -- Achaemenid impact in Paphlagonia: Rupestral tombs in the Amnias Valley / Lâtife Summerer and Alexander von Kienlin -- 'Achaemenid' and 'Achaemenid-inspired' goldware and silverware, jewellery and arms and their imitations to the north of the Achaemenid Empire / Mikhail Treister -- Revisiting Dareios' Scythian expedition / Christopher Tuplin |
| Summary |
For 200 years, from the second half of the 6th century BC to the decades before 330 BC, the Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids ruled an enormous empire stretching from the Mediterranean to Afganistan and India. The Great Kings Dareios I and Xerxes I even tried to conquer Greece and the northern Black Sea, but failed. Why were they interested in the Pontic area? In contrast to rich satrapies, such as Egypt, Phoenicia, and Syria, the Black Sea had no prosperous cities to offer. After 479 BC, the Persians acknowledged that the coast and Caucasus formed the natural borders of the empire. Nevertheless, the satraps became involved in the affairs of the Black Sea region in order to safeguard the empire's frontiers. The local inhabitants of the region became bearers and transmitters of Persian culture. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C.
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| SUBJECT |
Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C. fast |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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| SUBJECT |
Black Sea Coast -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Asia -- Black Sea Coast
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nieling, Jens, editor.
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Rehm, Ellen, editor.
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| LC no. |
2010481932 |
| ISBN |
8779342604 |
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9788779342606 |
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