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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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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.
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.
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...
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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Apr 12, 2022 · 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.
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...
