From jsiegel@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu Thu Mar 9 16:00:22 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA20896 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:00:20 -0800 Received: from nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (root@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu [155.247.166.101]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA19264 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 16:00:11 -0800 Received: from nimbus.temple.edu (lr915-m8.ppp.temple.edu [155.247.229.158]) by nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA30531 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:00:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C7FC4A.D044E9F@nimbus.temple.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:32:26 -0500 From: Janice Siegel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Temple University Computer Services} (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: realistic Persia? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear All: I cannot help this young man to any great extent, except to warn him away from Mary Renault as an accurate source (fun, yes) and point him toward Peter Green. I don't believe he is on-list, but I provide his email below. Thanks. I almost emailed this directly to Peter Green to save time (mine, not Peter's), but perhaps there are others who can help as well. Here is his note: Hello Dr. J, I enjoyed perusing your website. I am a graduate film student at the University of Southern California. My master's thesis is a screenplay that takes place in Persia circa 450 b.c., during the reign of Xerxes I. Could you possibly point me in the direction of specific resources (book, internet, human or otherwise) that might help me in painting a more accurate picture of daily life during that time, e.g. cooking, dwellings, clothing, art, etc. Most of the story takes place in Susa, in or around the royal palace. I'll be very grateful for any response you have the time to give. "Michael Bennett Cohn"