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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. recommended by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. At the height of its greatness, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world had ever known. Too often it is given merely a villainous walk-on part in the heroic history of classical Greece.

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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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4. www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com › the-magnificentThe Magnificent Seven Cleopatras (with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones)

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   Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, The Cleopatras, 2024. Available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook (read by the author). See Headline Publishing and all good retailers. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones at Cardiff University and Academia.edu. Music by Michael Levy www.ancientlyre.com.

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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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   Apr 12, 2022 · 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...

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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.

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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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   • 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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   Apr 15, 2022 · Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones’s “Persians: The Age of the Great Kings” is the sort of book one would prescribe for Knatchbull-Hugessen, or perhaps bludgeon him with, today.