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   Aug 26, 2021 · In Persians, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the epic story of this dynasty and the world it ruled. Drawing on Iranian inscriptions, cuneiform tablets, art, and archaeology, he shows how the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the world’s first superpower—one built, despite its imperial ambition, on cooperation and tolerance.

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   Oct 21, 2022 · The central idea of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's Persians: The Age of the Great Kings is simple. The Achaemenid Persian Empire , which flourished from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, was unjustly smeared by its Greek enemies as barbaric and effeminate.

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   Oct 23, 2020 · The best books on the Achaemenid Persian Empire, its culture, strengths and greatness, recommended by historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.

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   May 21, 2024 · Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones' The Cleopatras details the explosive era between 192 and 30 BCE, which was, in Ptolemaic Egypt, a time when powerful queens emerged from the shadows of their husbands, took power for themselves, reshaped the role of a queen and a co-ruler of the Pharaoh and changed the world.

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   • Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

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   Jun 6, 2024 · Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones takes a major step toward rectifying this oversight with The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt, which digs deep into the historical record to bring this dynasty to life in an easily readable, powerful narrative that makes “Game of Thrones” seem like child’s play.

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   Apr 12, 2022 · Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has an overall rating of Positive based on 4 book reviews.

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   Is Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones a good book?

   • Unfortunately, Llewellyn-Jones ends up introducing distortions of his own, and I cannot recommend his book for general readers. The central idea of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's Persians: The Age of the Great Kings is simple.

   Persians: The Age of the Great Kings - World History Encyclopedia

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   Who is Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones?

   • Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is a Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University and a specialist in the histories and cultures of ancient Iran and Greece. He also works on dress and gender in antiquity and on the ancient world in popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema.

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   What is the central idea of Llewellyn-Jones's Persians?

   • The central idea of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones's Persians: The Age of the Great Kings is simple. The Achaemenid Persian Empire, which flourished from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE, was unjustly smeared by its Greek enemies as barbaric and effeminate.

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   Is Llewellyn-Jones a true story?

   • There is a good deal of truth in the author's idea, but in his eagerness to set the record straight, Llewellyn-Jones has produced a work that often feels less like a fresh perspective on a misunderstood people and more like an extended polemic against Western historiography in general and the Ancient Greeks in particular.

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   Dr Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’ (hereafter LJ) new book Persians: The Age of the Great Kings is the latest work to shine a much-welcomed light on ancient Persia, specifically the Achaemenid Empire.