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Lecture 1 of 4 of the 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series, delivered by Robert Rollinger.
Professor Robert Rollinger delivers the four-part 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series on the theme, “The Achaemenid Persian World Empire.”
This lecture explores evidence that suggests that the old Iranian absolute frame of reference was constituted by the sunrise and sunset points of the winter and summer solstices.
This lecture discusses the major progress made in our understanding of the Avestan corpus/texts in the last years.
It was only in December 2005 that radiocarbon samples established beyond doubt a Sasanian-era construction date for the Gorgan Wall, the longest fort-lined barrier of the late antique world.
This lecture focuses on the two Ionian Greek women who accompanied Cyrus the Younger on his campaign against his older brother, King Artaxerxes II, in the Achaemenid civil war of 401 BC.
James Howard-Johnston’s The Last Great War of Antiquity aims to fill the gap in the history of warfare by piecing together the scattered and fragmentary evidence of the early 7th century to form a coherent story of the dramatic events surrounding the last Roman-Persian war.
