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Home » Lee, John W.I.

Intimate Relationships, Family, and Identity in the Achaemenid Empire

Published: April 14, 2023

Scholars today generally continue to accept Pierre Briant’s influential description of a dominant Persian ethno-class as the topmost stratum of the Achaemenid empire. At the same time, a diverse corpus…

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Greek ‘Concubines’ and Achaemenid Dynastic Politics

Published: January 19, 2022

Greek ‘Concubines’ and Achaemenid Dynastic Politics The civil war of 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his older brother King Artaxerxes II (r. 405/4-359/8 BC) is well known to Achaemenid historians,…

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