Cyrus the Great : Life and Lore Paperback / softback
Edited by M. Rahim Shayegan
Part of the Ilex Series series
Paperback / softback
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The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus’s foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond.
Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the complex dossier of Elamo-Persian acculturation; the Mesopotamian antecedents of Cyrus’s edict and religious policy; Cyrus’s Baupolitik at Pasargadae, and the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; the Babylonian exile, the Bible, and the First Return; Cyrus’s exalted but conflicted image in the later Greco-Roman world; his reception and programmatic function in genealogical constructs of the Hellenistic and Arsacid periods; and finally Cyrus’s conspicuous and enigmatic evanescence in the Sasanian and Muslim traditions. The sum of these wide-ranging contributions assembled in one volume, as well as a new critical edition and English translation of the Cyrus Cylinder, allow for a more adequate evaluation of Cyrus’s impact on his own age, as well as his imprint on posterity.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 20 halftones
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2019
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- ISBN:9780674987388
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 20 halftones
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674987388
