Samak the Ayyar: A Tale of Ancient Persia 9780231552813, 9780231198790, 9780231198783

Samak the Ayyar: A Tale of Ancient Persia 9780231552813

The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved

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A History of Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid Empire 1444350927, 9781444350920

An innovative approach to the history of the First Persian Empire, offering an accessible historical narrative for stude

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A History of Ancient Persia (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)

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A History of Ancient Persia 2020023647, 2020023648, 9781444350920, 9781119702542, 9781119702535

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Writing Ancient Persia 9781472541048, 9780715639177

This is a critique of this new Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for t

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Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE 9780521253697, 9781107009608, 2013027356

The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE), held sway over territ

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The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens: A Tale of Two Statues 9780190663568, 2017019141, 0190663561

This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyra

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Studies in Ancient Persia and the Achaemenid Period 0227177053, 9780227177051

An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), w

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The Epic of Kings- Hero Tales of Ancient Persia (Wisehouse Classics - The Authoritative Edition) 9176373878, 9789176373873

The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama ("The Book of Kings"), is a long epic poem written by the Persi

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The Epoch of the Nabonassarian Era and the Chronology of Ancient Persia

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