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050		0	_aDS281 _b.O46 1960
100	1		_aOlmstead, A. T. _q(Albert Ten Eyck), _d1880-1945.
245	1	0	_aHistory of the Persian empire / _cA. T. Olmstead.
250			_a3rd impr.
260			_aChicago : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c1960.
300			_axviii, 568 p. : _bill., maps ; _c23 cm.
490	0		_aPhoenix Books ; _vP36
500			_aA historical pageant of the greatness of ancient Persia...
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aI. 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’.
651		0	_aIran _xHistory _yTo 640.
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