Persian Responses

A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander.

Thucydides' Portrait of Tissaphernes Re-Examined (John Hyland); Xenophon's Wicked Persian, or What's Wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's Views on Lying and Breaking Oaths (Gabriel Danzig); On Persian Tryphe in Athenaeus (Dominique Lenfant); Treacherous Hearts and Upright Tiaras: the Achaemenid King's Head-dress (Christopher Tuplin); Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis (Alan Lloyd); Indigenous Aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia (Frederic Maffre); Hellenization and Lycian Cults during the Achaemenid Period (Eric Raimond); Babylonian Workers in the Persian Heartland during the reign of Cambyses (Wouter Henkelman & Kristin Kleber); Reading Persepolis in Greek: the Gifts of the Yauna (Margaret Cool Root); Boxus the Persian and the Hellenization of Persis (Nicholas Sekunda); The Philosopher's Zarathushtra (Phiroze Vasunia); Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? (Robin Lane Fox); 'Chilminar olim Persepolis': European Reception of a Persian Ruin (Lindsay Allen); Pottering around Persepolis: Observations on Early European Visitors to the Site (St John Simpson).