12-01-2007, 12:50 PM
Quote:[He is in fact a rehabilitator, and he improves his masterpiece with pdf add-ons containing new bibliography, new sources, ect (achemenet.com).
From Cyrus to Alexander is the most outstanding work on Achaemenid history I have read....and continue to re-read. The breadth and scope, coupled with the author's mastery of and empathy for the subject, make it a delight. Pierre Briant brings, literally, a life-time of work in the field to this exhaustive monograph. The index pages of source material, subject matter, names, etc would run to the average paperback.
It stagers me that one man can be across so much source material.
I know it is not an "inexpensive" purchase (such a work should earn its author a Franc) but, that pointed out, anyone who has an interest in understanding Persian history from a viewpoint beyond the Hellenic construct should read it.
Here endeth the lecture!!
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
Academia.edu
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
Academia.edu
