Beyond the River (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781850756781)

Here is a blueprint for a new interdisciplinary approach that decompartmentalizes disciplines for the study of this district of the Achaemenid Empire including Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine and Cyprus. Remarkable cultural evolutions and changes in this area need closer study: the introduction of coinage and the coin economy, the sources of tension over problems of power and identity, the emergence of city-states similar to the Greek city type, the development of mercenary armies, the opening up of the Western fringe of the Persian Empire to the Greek world. Completely new research initiatives can extensively modify the vision that classical and oriental specialists have traditionally formed of the history of the Persian Empire.

Author: Josette Elayi,Jean Sapin
ISBN-10: 1850756783
ISBN-13: 9781850756781
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d