The Immortals

[Vishtaspa]

Somehow no one sees the need for looking at such an important work. It seems to me that the established theories about the rise and fall of the Persians are final and no one cares to research further or go into another direction...

Regards

I completely agree. I think that, fortunately, scholars like Pierre Briant, Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg (with the Achaemenid History journal), Josef Wieserhoefer etc are working in the rigth direction, and leaving behind the old fashioned and too helenocentric persian history.

For example, in his very interesting book Darius dans l'ombre d'Alexander (Darius behind Alexander's shadow) Pierre Briant reconstructs and "reinvents" Darius III figure, taking many material from iranian sources, like Ferdowsi and medieval persian literature.
But many modern and very influential stuff like Persian fire or 300 are steps backwards (much more 300, Persian fire is not bad at all, but outdated)

czolem, Dariusz, thanks for the link!. I knew already Warner translation in the web, but it's very tiring read such a work in the screen...

PD: Darayavaush, I was writing while you sent the last post, this stuff looks great, have you a bibliographical reference? I can't read polish but yes a little german, slowly.

regards, khoda hafez