Persians

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541600355

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A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs reigned supreme for centuries until the conquests of Alexander of Macedon brought the empire to a swift and unexpected end in the late 330s BCE. In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance. This is the definitive history of the Achaemenid dynasty and its legacies in modern-day Iran, a book that completely reshapes our understanding of the ancient world.

Author : Geoffrey Parker,Brenda Parker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780236988

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The Persians by Geoffrey Parker,Brenda Parker Pdf

During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they would go on to form one of the most powerful empires in history: the Persian Empire. In this book, Geoffrey and Brenda Parker tell the captivating story of this ancient civilization and its enduring legacy to the world. The authors examine the unique features of Persian life and trace their influence throughout the centuries. They examine the environmental difficulties the early Persians encountered and how, in overcoming them, they were able to develop a unique culture that would culminate in the massive, first empire, the Achaemenid Empire. Extending their influence into the maritime west, they fought the Greeks for mastery of the eastern Mediterranean—one of the most significant geopolitical contests of the ancient world. And the authors paint vivid portraits of Persian cities and their spectacular achievements: intricate and far-reaching roadways, an astonishing irrigation system that created desert paradises, and, above all, an extraordinary reflection of the diverse peoples that inhabited them. Informed and original, this is a history of an incomparable culture whose influence can still be seen, millennia later, in modern-day Iran and the wider Middle East.

Author : Gene R. Garthwaite
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1557868603

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The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. A succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. Traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revoltuion on 1979 and the establishment of the current Islamic Republic. Uses the most recent scholarship to examine Iran's political, social and cultural history. Focuses on rulership as a central theme in Iranian identity. Also shows how land, language and literature relate to Iranian identity.

Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0300121180

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In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons—its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state. Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam, and Saadi—and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term thinking dominate. A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background to the role of Iran in the contemporary world.

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674067592

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The World of Persian Literary Humanism by Hamid Dabashi Pdf

Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 0809491044

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Persians by Time-Life Books Pdf

Ancient history.

Author : Olga M. Davidson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781501733970

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Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings by Olga M. Davidson Pdf

A masterpiece of Persian Classical epic, the Shahnama or Book of Kings was composed by Abu'l-Qasem Ferdowsi at the beginning of the eleventh century. Because the Shahnama presents itself as a chronicle of the reigns of the shahs from the primordial founders to the Sasanian dynasty which ended in 651, scholarly attention has centered on the question of its historical accuracy. Addressing the literary as well as the historical and mythological aspects of the Shahnama, Olga M. Davidson makes this centerpiece of Iranian culture accessible to Western readers. Drawing on recent work in epic studies and oral poetics, Davidson considers analogies with Classical and medieval European narratives as she investigates the poem's social contexts. Her interpretation of the Shahnama focuses on both the figure of the poet himself and on his protagonists-the superhuman hero Rostam and the historical or historicized shahs. Exploring the Shahnama as an example of court poetry designed to glorify the idea of empire, Davidson identifies as a driving force of Ferdowsi's narrative a strong current of antagonism between king and hero. Ironically, she shows, it is the epic hero himself who poses the greatest threat to the concept of kingship that he is sworn to defend. Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings will be welcomed by readers working in such fields as comparative literature, Middle Eastern Studies, folklore, literary theory, and comparative religion.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066464400

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The Persian Wars by Herodotus Pdf

Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dispute as one between the forces of slavery on the one hand and freedom on the other. This work covers the rise of the Persian influence and a history of the Persian empire, a description and history of Egypt, and a long digression on the landscape and traditions of Scythia. Because of the comprehensiveness of this work, it was considered the founding work of history in Western literature. A must-have for history enthusiasts.

Author : Firdausi
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783986778163

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The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia by Firdausi Pdf

The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia Firdausi - The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia (The Shahnameh) is an epic poem by the Persian poet Firdausi, written between 966 and 1010 AD. Telling the past of the Persian empire, using a mix of the mythical and historical, it is regarded as a literary masterpiece. Not only important to the Persian culture, it is also important to modern day followers of the Zoroastrianism religion. It is said that the poem was Firdausi's efforts to preserve the memory of Persia's golden days, following the fall of the Sassanid empire. The poem contains, among others, mentions of the romance of Zal and Rudba, Alexander the Great, the wars with Afrsyb, and the romance of Bijan and Manijeh.

Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670034851

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Shahnameh by Firdawsī Pdf

A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004277649

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Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila Pdf

In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme.

Author : Matt Waters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107652729

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Ancient Persia by Matt Waters Pdf

The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r.522–486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview of the Achaemenid period while considering the manifold interpretive problems historians face in constructing and understanding its history. This book offers a Persian perspective even when relying on Greek textual sources and archaeological evidence. Waters situates the story of the Achaemenid Persians in the context of their predecessors in the mid-first millennium BCE and through their successors after the Macedonian conquest, constructing a compelling narrative of how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550–330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on Middle Eastern as well as Greek and European history.

Author : Arthur comte de Gobineau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000600588

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The World of the Persians by Arthur comte de Gobineau Pdf

Author : Marianna Shreve Simpson,Louise Marlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Epic poetry, Persian
ISBN : 0300215746

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Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings by Marianna Shreve Simpson,Louise Marlow Pdf

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum, October 3, 2015-January 24, 2016.

Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004445529

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Narrative Illustration in Persian Lithographed Books by Ulrich Marzolph Pdf

This study surveys a distinctive type of the “Islamic” book which has been largely neglected in previous scholarship: the genre of illustrated lithographed books produced in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran. In addition to introducing the history of printing in Iran and surveying the investigated sources, the study supplies basic data on genres of illustrated books, artists active in lithographic illustration, and aspects germane to this particular field of art. The documentation includes bibliographical references for 116 illustrated books in a total of 351 particular editions and 150 plates with several hundred single illustrations. Lithographic illustration in Iran constitutes the legitimate successor to manuscript illustration, both in content and style. Contrasting with the latter’s refinement, lithographed illustrations were produced in large numbers and served as a powerful medium of popular iconography.