Cyrus the Great - Life and Lore

Informationen zum Autor M. Rahim Shayegan is Eleanor and Jahangir Amuzegar Professor of Iranian and Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Cyrus the Great re-contextualizes Cyrus's epoch in light of recent scholarship. Themes include: Mesopotamian antecedents of his religious policy, the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; Babylonian exile and the Bible; Hellenistic and Arsacid genealogical constructs; and his enigmatic evanescence in Sasanian and Muslim traditions. Zusammenfassung Cyrus the Great re-contextualizes Cyrus’s epoch in light of recent scholarship. Themes include: Mesopotamian antecedents of his religious policy, the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; Babylonian exile and the Bible; Hellenistic and Arsacid genealogical constructs; and his enigmatic evanescence in Sasanian and Muslim traditions.

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• Authors: M. Rahim Shayegan
• Assisted by: M. Rahim Shayegan (Editor), Shayegan M. Rahim (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2019
• EAN: 9780674987388
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98738-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Ilex Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, RELIGION / Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrianism