Alexander III famously co-opted Persian nobles for the management of his empire, and initiated a policy of intermarriage with the leading families of the former Achaemenid Empire. Alexander’s ‘Iranian policy’…
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The 400-year period of Persian and then Macedonian domination of the Iranian world (c. 550–150 BCE) coincided with the first great age of “globalization,” as interconnectivity in Afro-Eurasia increased exponentially…
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The Marriage of Antiochos and Nanaia: Empire and Religion in Hellenistic Iran Starting with the example of Antiochos IV Epiphanes’ (intended) sacred marriage with the goddess Nanaia in Elam (2…
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