Ali Mousavi is a Senior Pourdavoud Research Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. He studied in Lyon, France, and…
Read MoreHow the Persian Book of Kings by Ferdowsi about the Ancient Royal Dynasties of Iran Could Ever Become a World Epic for the So-Called West
Published: May 20, 2022Olga M. Davidson (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1983) is on the faculty of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston University, where she has served as Research…
Read MoreWestern Sources for the Sasanians
Published: May 20, 2022David Potter is Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at…
Read MoreArdashir I, the Early Sasanians, and Reorienting the Near East and the Caucasus
Published: May 20, 2022Touraj Daryaee holds the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and is the Directory of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California,…
Read MoreParthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy
Published: May 20, 2022Jake Nabel is an Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a historian of ancient Rome, pre-Islamic Iran, and the points of contact…
Read MoreParthian Silver and the Creation and Contestation of Aristocracies in Post-Hellenistic Iran
Published: May 20, 2022Matthew P. Canepa is Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at University of California, Irvine. He is Director of UCI’s Ph.D….
Read MoreUniversality and Alterity in the Achaemenid World
Published: May 19, 2022Rahim Shayegan is the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Professor of Iranian, and director of Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA. He has authored and edited…
Read MoreThe Achaemenid Persian Empire and the West: A Structural Approach
Published: May 19, 2022Robert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he has held since 2005 the Chair for “Cultural Interactions between…
Read MoreHow to Govern an Empire? The Inscriptions of Darius I As a Constitutional Program
Published: May 19, 2022Professor Hilmar Klinkott studied Ancient History, (Classical) Archaeology, and Latin at the Ruprecht Carls University Heidelberg, earning a M.A. in 1997. He continued his studies at the University of Tübingen,…
Read MoreCelebrating Achaemenid Victories: A Glyptic Triumphal Motif and its Greek and Egyptian Victims
Published: May 19, 2022John O. Hyland is Professor of History at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. He is the author of Persian Interventions: the Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta 450–386 BCE…
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