Persia Archive
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ARABIC CONFLUENCE FROM CONSTANTINE TO HERACLIUS: The Preparation for a 7th Century Religio-Racial Explosion
Posted on July 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper's argument is purposeless without the reader knowing the seventh century events of the so-called explosion of Islam, and the interpretation of which I find so contentious. Thus a brief description of the episode is necessary. -
Cyrus and the Medes
Posted on July 15, 2012 | No CommentsCyrus -
The Persian Wars against Greece: A Reassessment
Posted on June 17, 2012 | No CommentsWith King Darius' invasion of European Thrace and the northern Scythian regions in 513 B.C., an Achaemenid imperial policy of expansion toward Greece had begun. -
This is Sparta?
Posted on June 6, 2012 | No CommentsNeither film, however, gives any real screen time, or indeed mention of, the social structure of ancient Sparta. -
The Herodotean “Harem” and statecraft in Achaemenid Persia
Posted on June 3, 2012 | No CommentsHerodotus had never been to Persia though he had, most likely, been to Egypt. Therefore, anything he wrote about Persia and its customs, history, or political and social institutions was based on informants. -
The Seleukid Empire between Orientalism and Hellenocentrism: Writing the history of Iran in the Third and Second Centuries BCE
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsWedged between the Achaemenid and Parthian periods in Iranian history, there is the so-called Hellenistic Age, in which the lands of Greater Iran were part of the political organization known as the Seleukid Empire. -
Jamasp, an Ancient Persian Pharmacist
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsJamasp, the great Persian scientist who lived about 500 BC, is introduced in this article. He was the minister of king Vishtasb and contemporary with Zoroaster. -
The provisioning of the Ten Thousand
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsImagine finding yourself and a group of thousands of fellow citizens stranded in the middle of a strange country, thousands of kilometres away from home. -
‘Persianisation’ in the Art and Architecture of Achaemenid Provincial Palaces, 550-330BC
Posted on April 6, 2012 | No CommentsThe royal art of the Achaemenid kings reflects the ideals and attitudes of the king and his courtiers, presenting, above all, an ideal view of the nature of Persian kingship. -
The Two Orients for Greek Writers
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsIndia was subdued by Darius I and incorporated into the vast Persian Empire at the end of the sixth century. This conquest stimulated the interest of Greeks living in Persian Asia Minor, such as Scylax, Hecataeus, Herodotus and Ctesias, whose accounts of India are known to us. The aim of this paper is to examine those accounts, and bring forward the authors' views of India, the Persian Empire, and the world.
