
Название: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
Автор: Pierre Briant
Издательство: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 1575060310
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 1196
Размер: 55,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
This book is not for the faint of heart. It is over 1000 pages, counting notes, and is very comprehensive in its scope. Briant not only provides a very thorough political narrative of the Persian Empire but also covers social, military, religious, and economic matters. The author does a brilliant job of explaining the sources, or lack thereof, and providing equal time to all of the available sources: from the heavily biased Histories of the Greek Herodotus to recently uncovered archaeolgical inscriptions.