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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is a Welsh professor of ancient history, with a focus on ancient Iran, in particular the Achaemenid (550–330 BC) period. Before this, he specialized in the study of ancient Greece. Since 2016, he holds the Chair of Ancient History at Cardiff University. Prior to that, he served at the classics ...
My main research interests are: Ancient Iran, especially the Achaemenid period (559-331 BCE) Persian and Greek encounters in the Archaic and Classical Periods. Iranian history and culture. Shahnameh and strytelling traditions in Iran. Cross cultural and cross temporal comparatives. Monarchy and court society. Gender and sexuality.
He is the author of ‘Aphrodite’s Tortoise: the Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece’, ‘King and Court in Ancient Persia’, ‘Ctesias’ Persica: Tales of the Orient’, ‘The Culture of Animals in Antiquity’ and ‘Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World’.
Ctesias of Cnidus was a doctor at the court of Artaxerxes II and the author of a history of Persia and other works. He seems to have studied, and possibly practised, medicine at Cnidus. The exact time and reason for Ctesias’ arrival in Persia (maybe as a prisoner of war) is unknown.
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.
Formerly Professor of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies at Edinburgh University, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones takes up the post of Professor of Ancient History after eleven years in the Scottish capital.
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Oct 23, 2020 · Here, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones explains why that needs correcting, looks at its cultural achievements and discusses why the first Persian empire is worth studying in its own right and on its own terms.
