Cyrus the Great life and lore
The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes in light of recent scholarship Cyrus' foundational act and epoch, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond. Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the complex dossier of Elamo-Persian acculturation...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Boston, Massachusetts
Ilex Foundation
2018
Washington, D.C. Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England Harvard University Press |
| Schriftenreihe: | Ilex Foundation series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes in light of recent scholarship Cyrus' foundational act and epoch, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond. Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the complex dossier of Elamo-Persian acculturation; the Mesopotamian antecedents of Cyrus' edict and religious policy; Cyrus' Baupolitik at Pasargadae, and the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; the Babylonian exile, the Bible, and the First Return; Cyrus' exalted but conflicted image in the later Greco-Roman world; his reception and programmatic function in genealogical constructs of the Hellenistic and Arsacid periods; and finally Cyrus' conspicuous and enigmatic evanescence in the Sasanian and Muslim traditions. The sum of these wide-ranging contributions assembled in one volume, as well as a new critical edition and English translation of the Cyrus Cylinder, allow for a more adequate evaluation of Cyrus' impact on his own age, as well as his imprint on posterity |
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| Beschreibung: | Revised proceedings of an international conference on Cyrus the Great, his life and reception, held in October 2013 at UCLA |
| Beschreibung: | vii, 258 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780674987388 978-0-674-98738-8 |