From Cyrus to Seleukos Studies in Achaemenid and Hellenistic History

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The present volume is a collection of articles published in English by Professor Pierre Briant of the Collège de France, in various forms over the past three decades. FROM CYRUS TO SELEUKOS: STUDIES IN ACHAEMENID AND HELLENISTIC HISTORY Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Part 1: History and Historiography Chapter 1: ‘Alexander the Great and the Enlightenment: William Robertson (1721- 1793), the Empire and the Road to India’, Cromohs (2005) 10: 1-9. Chapter 2: ‘Alexander and the Persian Empire, between “Decline” and “Renovation”. History and Historiography’, in: W. Heckel/L.A. Tritle (eds.), Alexander the Great. A New History, Oxford (2009): 171-18 Chapter 3: ‘The Theme of ‘Persian Decadence’ in Eighteenth-Century European Historiography: Remarks on the Genesis of a Myth’, in: J. Curtis/St John Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia, London (2010): 3-15. Chapter 4: ‘Grote on Alexander the Great’, in: K. Demetriou (ed.), Brill’s Companion to George Grote and the Classical Tradition, Leiden-Boston (2014): 329-365. Chapter 5: ‘Milestones in the Development of Achaemenid Historiography in the Era of Ernst Herzfeld’, in: A. Gunter/S. Hauser (eds.), Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies 1900-1950, Leiden-Boston (2005): 263-28 0. Chapter 6: ‘Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias J. Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia”: from Alexander the Great to World War II’, in: J. G. Manning (ed.), Writing History in Time of War, Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias J. Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia”, Franz Steiner Verlag (2015): 13-32. Part 2: From Cyrus to Seleukos Chapter 7: ‘Cyrus the Great’, in: T. Daryaee (ed.), Cyrus the Great, Afshar (2013): 1-15. Chapter 8: ‘The Empire of Darius III in Perspective’, in: W. Heckel/L.A. Tritle (eds.), Alexander the Great. A New History, Oxford (2009): 141-170. Chapter 9: The Seleucid Kingdom, the Achaemenid Empire and the History of the Near-East in the First Millennium B.C.’, in: P. Bilde et al. (eds.), Religion and Religious Practices in the Seleucid Kingdom, Aarhus (1990): 40-65. Part 3: War and Peace in the Achaemenid Empire Chapter 10: ‘The Achaemenid Empire’, in: K. Raaflaub/N. Rosenstein (eds.), War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica, Cambridge MA (1999): 106-128. Chapter 11: ‘From the Indus to the Mediterranean: The Administrative Organization and Logistics of the Great roads of the Achaemenid Empire’, in: S. Alcock, J. Bodel & R.T. Talbert (eds.), Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-modern World, Wiley-Blackwell (2012): 185-201. Chapter 12: ‘Susa and Elam in the Achaemenid Empire’, in: J. Perrot (ed.), The Palace of Darius at Susa. The Great Royal Residence of Achaemenid Persia, London (2013): 3-25. Chapter 13: ‘New Tre nds in Achaemenid History’, AHB (2003) 17: 33-47. Chapter 14: ‘Persia and Persians’, in: B.T. Arnold/B. Strawn (eds.), The World around the Old Testament. The People and Places of the Ancient Near East, Grand Rapids (2016): 379-415