Charax Spasinou: Research on the Capital of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade The city of Charax Spasinou was a major trading center of the Arsacid Empire. Located near…
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About the Speaker Margaret Cool Root’s research focuses on issues of art, social history, and historiography particularly involving studies of iconography, style, and identity politics. Her specialist realms of analysis…
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Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE? Looking at historical handbooks of the Ancient Near East, there appears to be a general agreement on…
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Transmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity This lecture explores continuities and changes in the formation of religious sites, structures, and practices in Persia and the wider ancient Iranian world….
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Deities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives The texts and seals preserved as impressions from two large archives of administrative tablets at Persepolis…
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The Study of Zoroastrianism and the Academic Study of Religion Even though the study of Zoroastrianism was an important subject in the early years of the History of Religions as…
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Persianism in Commagene: The Mnemohistory of the Achaemenid Empire in Hellenistic Eurasia The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role already in Antiquity….
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Diophante’s Kandys: Faceted Relations between Persia and Classical Athens Against a background of war and power politics, social exchange also took place between ancient Athens and the Persian Empire founded…
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