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History of the Persian empire / A. T. Olmstead.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Phoenix Books ; P36Publication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1960.Edition: 3rd imprDescription: xviii, 568 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS281 .O46 1960
Contents:
I. ANCIENT HISTORY - II. IRANIAN ORIGINS - III. FOUNDER CYRUS - IV. CAMP OF THE PERSIANS - V. LIFE AMONG THE SUBJECT PEOPLES - VI. CAMBYSES AND THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT - VII. PROPHET ZOROASTER - VIII. USURPER DARIUS - IX. A NEW LAWGIVER - X. FROM INDIA TO EUROPE - XI. PROBLEMS OF THE GREEK FRONTIER - XII. THE THREE CAPITALS : ECBATANA, BABYLON, AND SUSA - XIII. PERSEPOLIS - XIV. A ROYAL HUCKSTER - XV. PATHS OF THE GODS - XVI. XERXES AS CROWN PRINCE - XVII. THE GREAT KING AND HIS ARMIES - XVIII. FAILURE IN EUROPE - XIX. DELIAN LEAGUE AGAINST PERSIA - XX. NEW YEAR'S DAY AT PERSEPOLIS - XXI. OVERTAXATION AND ITS RESULTS - XXII. TRIUMPHS THROUGH DIPLOMACY - XXIII. ORIENTAL TALES AND ROMANCES - XXIV. SCIENCE WITHOUT THEOLOGY - XXV. DIVIDE AND CONQUER - XXVI. DECISION FOR SPARTA - XXVII. DICTATOR TO GREECE - XXVIII. THE LAST EGYPTIAN EMPIRE - XXIX. BRIEF RECOVERY - XXX. THE NILE REGAINED - XXXI. SCIENCE TRUE AND FALSE - XXXII. RELIGIONS DYING AND LIVING - XXXIII. FRESH BREEZES FROM THE WEST - XXXIV. PHILIP AND THE START OF THE CRUSADE - XXXV. ALEXANDER, HEIR TO THE CRUSADE - XXXVI. THE ORIENTAL GOD-KING - XXXVII. PERSEPOLIS - THE CRUSADE ENDS -- Maps : Satrapies of the Persian empire - Plan of Terrace of Persepolis - Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia - The Troad and the Straits - European Greece and the Western Aegean - Asia minor and Cyprus - Egypt and the West - Egypt - Lycia - Northern Greece - Ionia - The province ‘ Across the river’.
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A historical pageant of the greatness of ancient Persia...

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. ANCIENT HISTORY - II. IRANIAN ORIGINS - III. FOUNDER CYRUS - IV. CAMP OF THE PERSIANS - V. LIFE AMONG THE SUBJECT PEOPLES - VI. CAMBYSES AND THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT - VII. PROPHET ZOROASTER - VIII. USURPER DARIUS - IX. A NEW LAWGIVER - X. FROM INDIA TO EUROPE - XI. PROBLEMS OF THE GREEK FRONTIER - XII. THE THREE CAPITALS : ECBATANA, BABYLON, AND SUSA - XIII. PERSEPOLIS - XIV. A ROYAL HUCKSTER - XV. PATHS OF THE GODS - XVI. XERXES AS CROWN PRINCE - XVII. THE GREAT KING AND HIS ARMIES - XVIII. FAILURE IN EUROPE - XIX. DELIAN LEAGUE AGAINST PERSIA - XX. NEW YEAR'S DAY AT PERSEPOLIS - XXI. OVERTAXATION AND ITS RESULTS - XXII. TRIUMPHS THROUGH DIPLOMACY - XXIII. ORIENTAL TALES AND ROMANCES - XXIV. SCIENCE WITHOUT THEOLOGY - XXV. DIVIDE AND CONQUER - XXVI. DECISION FOR SPARTA - XXVII. DICTATOR TO GREECE - XXVIII. THE LAST EGYPTIAN EMPIRE - XXIX. BRIEF RECOVERY - XXX. THE NILE REGAINED - XXXI. SCIENCE TRUE AND FALSE - XXXII. RELIGIONS DYING AND LIVING - XXXIII. FRESH BREEZES FROM THE WEST - XXXIV. PHILIP AND THE START OF THE CRUSADE - XXXV. ALEXANDER, HEIR TO THE CRUSADE - XXXVI. THE ORIENTAL GOD-KING - XXXVII. PERSEPOLIS - THE CRUSADE ENDS -- Maps : Satrapies of the Persian empire - Plan of Terrace of Persepolis - Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia - The Troad and the Straits - European Greece and the Western Aegean - Asia minor and Cyprus - Egypt and the West - Egypt - Lycia - Northern Greece - Ionia - The province ‘ Across the river’.

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