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Towards one world : ancient Persia and the West
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Title
Towards one world : ancient Persia and the West / Warwick Ball.
ISBN
9781566568227 (pbk.)
1566568226 (pbk.)
Published
Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 224 pages, xlviii pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Summary
"The Persian Empire was the first major eastern power to actually extend its borders into Europe. The Persians came in the 6th century BC as a great power seeking to incorporate parts of south-eastern Europe as provinces into a centrally ruled and administered empire. Yet Iran's foothold in Europe was tiny, distant and brief: of all the peoples form the East who entered Europe, the Iranian presence appears the least, covering little more than sixty years ... More than anything else, what Iran contributed to posterity was an idea. In articulating the concept of a single universal creator, ancient Persian civilization was the first to grope towards the idea of a single universal world. The idea of one world was to persist." Book Jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2016
Series
Asia in Europe and the making of the West ; v. 2
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-216) and index.
Contents
The legacy of Cyrus. The Iranian background
Persians and Greeks. The beginnings of a complex relationship
The Ionians beyond the sea. The Graeco-Persian wars
The demon king. Alexander of Macedon's invasion
An 'Iranistic' age. Neo-Persian kingdoms and a would-be empire
Two super-powers. Recovery, expansion and the war that changed the world
Light and darkness. Iranian religious ideas
The shadow of Zoroaster. Iranian religion in Anatolia and Armenia
The dualist challenge. Manichaeans, Paulicians, Bogomils, Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
An Iranian world. Conclusion.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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