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- 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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Aug 5, 2022 · Llewellyn-Jones’s habit of referring to Persian chiefs by the Turco-Mongolian title of “khan” is a clue that he may be overplaying the similarities between the steppe nomads of the 13th century AD and the shadowy, Aryan origins of the Persians.
Jul 2, 2022 · Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones seeks to upend the propaganda and misrepresentations of hostile historians and give greater emphasis to Persian voices. Unfortunately, despite a valiant effort, Llewellyn-Jones fails in the attempt.
Oct 30, 2022 · Persia was, as Llewellyn-Jones rightly notes, the world’s first great superpower, a multicultural and multiethnic superstate that stretched across three continents and was a hub of art, culture, and civilization too caustically dismissed by the partisans of Hellenic exceptionalism.
May 20, 2022 · But the scale of the Persians’ empire – “from the Sacae who are beyond Sogdia to Kush, and from Sind to Lydia”, in the words of one Persian royal pronouncement – requires a superhuman range of skills: the ability not only to read Old Persian, Babylonian, Elamite, Aramaic, Egyptian and Greek (hard enough), but to understand the ...
Apr 15, 2022 · In his effort to give “ear to a genuine ancient Persian voice,” Mr. Llewellyn-Jones synthesizes what can be gleaned from artifacts, inscriptions and fragmentary accounts. From Cyrus to Xerxes...
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...
