From cejo@midway.uchicago.edu Fri Mar 10 07:53:58 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA30696 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:53:57 -0800 Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA04394 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:53:56 -0800 Received: from harper.uchicago.edu (root@harper.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.7]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26459; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:53:50 -0600 (CST) Received: from [128.135.244.85] (istakhr.uchicago.edu [128.135.244.85]) by harper.uchicago.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29595; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:53:49 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Sender: cejo@acs-popmail.uchicago.edu Message-Id: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:58:18 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: Background to Achaemenid Persia Cc: mbcohn@earthlink.net To Peter Green's list I'd add the following: Wieseh=F6fer, Josef. Ancient Persia from 550 BC to 650 AD. London: I. B. Tauris; 1996. 1 volume (xiv + 329 pages + 22 plates). ISBN: 1-85043-999-0. [Note: Translation of his 1994 'Das antike Persien: Von 550 v. Chr. bis 650 n. Chr.'] and even the short: Josef Wiesh=F6fer. Das fr=FChe Persien: Geschichte eines antiken Weltreichs. M=FCnchen: C.H. Beck; 1999. Pp. 128. ISBN 3-406-43307-3. [Reviewed just yesterday by Christopher Ehrhardt in BMCR 00.03.09]. and of course Briant, Pierre. Histoire de l'=C9mpire Perse de Cyrus =E0 Alexandre. Paris: =46ayard; 1996. 1 volume (1247 pages [illustrated]). ISBN: 2-213-59667-0. [Note: Text identical to the Nederlands Instituut vor het Nabije Oosten. 1996 edition.] and the appropriate chapters in: Harper, Prudence O.; Aruz, Joan; Tallon, Fran=E7oise, [Editors]. The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; 1992. 1 volume (xx + 316 pages [including 195 illustrations and 62 figures]). ISBN: 0-87099-651-7. [Note: This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 17, 1992, to March 7, 1993.] As for visual resources, we have published a thousand or so photographs - most of them of Persepolis - from the Oriental Institute Chicago archaeological expedition to Iran in the 1930's on our web site at: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/PAAI/PAAI.html for those willing to wait, and to risk maxing out their memory, there is also a single page of thumbnail images of all our on-line pictures of Iran at: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Iranthumbs.html It could also be worthwhile to look at the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Project on-line: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/ARI/ARI.html -Chuck Jones- ce-jones@uchicago.edu .