Focuses on the massive Persian Empire, starting with the conquest of
Cyrus the Great and going on to the later Sassanid period. Includes an
interesting look at how Cyrus’s conquest of Babylon became the basis of
a much later Sassanid myth, the undocumented but archeologically
interesting of Dura-Europos, and the portrayal of Artemisia of
Halicarnassus in the Greek histories of the period
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