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King and court in ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
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February 2014

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L. Llewellyn-Jones

The first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the south of modern-day Iran, was the person of the Great King. Immortalized in Greek literature as despotic tyrants, a new vision of Persian monarchy is emerging from Iranian, and other, sources (literary, visual, and archaeological), which show the Kings in a very different light. Inscriptions of Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, and their heirs present an image of Persian rulers as liberators, peace-makers, valiant warriors, righteous god-fearing judges, and law-makers. Around them the Kings established lavish and sophisticated courts, the centres of political decision-making and cultural achievements in which the image of monarchy was endorsed and advanced by an almost theatrical display of grandeur and power. This book explores the representation of Persian monarchy and the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and through the sometimes distorted prism of Classical authors.

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... Es allí donde aparece la misma lista de virtudes que vertebraban el alma de Ciro el Grande en la Ciropedia. Ciro el Joven responde al monarca ideal para liderar una παμβασιλεία porque, a diferencia de su hermano Artajerjes II, era "el hombre más apto para reinar y el más digno de gobernar (βασιλικώτατός τε καὶ ἄρχειν ἀξιώτατος) entre los persas que sucedieron a Ciro el Viejo" (Xen., An. 1.9.1) 55 , 49 García Sánchez 2009: 71-82;Potts 2023;Llewellyn-Jones 2013;2024. 50 Rood 2004; en contra de ese panhelenismo, a nuestro parecer erróneamente, Flower 2012. ...

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La Ciropedia y la Anabasis: ¿un príncipe socrático en una παμβασιλεία?.
King and court in ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
  • Citing Book
  • February 2014