Persian Responses (eBook)

Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Failings of Empire (1993) and Achaemenid Studies (1996), editor of Pontus and the Outside World (2004) and Xenophon and his World (2004) and co-editor (with T.E.Rihll) of Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture (2002). He has also published numerous research papers, chiefly on Xenophon, classical Greek history and the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Preface Abbreviations Introduction - Christopher Tuplin 1. Thucydides' portrait of Tissaphernes re-examined - John O. Hyland 2. Xenophon's wicked Persian, or What's wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's views on lying and breaking oaths - Gabriel Danzig 3. On Persian tryphe in Athenaeus - Dominique Lenfant 4. Treacherous hearts and upright tiaras: the Achaemenid king's head-dress -Christopher Tuplin 5. Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibi - Alan B. Lloyd 6. Indigenous aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia - Frederic Maffre 7. Hellenization and Lycian cults during the Achaemenid period - Eric A. Raimond 8. Babylonian workers in the Persian heartland: palace building at Matannan in the reign of Cambyses - Wouter F.M. Henkelman and Kristin Kleber 9. Reading Persepolis in Greek: gifts of the Yauna - Margaret Cool Root 10. Boxus the Persian and the hellenization of Persis - Nicholas Sekunda 11. The philosopher's Zarathushtra - Phiroze Vasunia 12. Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? - Robin Lane Fox 13. 'Chilminar olim Persepolis': European reception of a Persian ruin - Lindsay Allen 14. Pottering around Persepolis: observations on early European visitors to the site -St John Simpson Index