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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Corporate Author: International Conference on Cyrus the Great Los Angeles, Calif (Author)
Other Authors: Shayegan, M. Rahim 1966- (Editor)
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts Ilex Foundation [2018]
Washington, D.C. Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University
Series:Ilex Foundation series 21
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary: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
Item Description:Revised proceedings of an international conference on Cyrus the Great, his life and reception, held in October 2013 at UCLA
Physical Description:vii, 258 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780674987388

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