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Cyrus the great : life and lore

Shayegan, M. Rahim, editor

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The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes in light of recent scholarship Cyrus' foundational act and epoch, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond. Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the complex dossier of Elamo-Persian acculturation; the Mesopotamian antecedents of Cyrus' edict and religious policy; Cyrus' Baupolitik at Pasargadae, and the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; the Babylonian exile, the Bible, and the First Return; Cyrus' exalted but conflicted image in the later Greco-Roman world; his reception and programmatic function in genealogical constructs of the Hellenistic and Arsacid periods; and finally Cyrus' conspicuous and enigmatic evanescence in the Sasanian and Muslim traditions. The sum of these wide-ranging contributions assembled in one volume, as well as a new critical edition and English translation of the Cyrus Cylinder, allow for a more adequate evaluation of Cyrus' impact on his own age, as well as his imprint on posterity.

• Publisher: Ilex Foundation ; Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University
• Subject: Cyrus, the Great, King of Persia, -530 B.C. or 529 B.C. / Achaemenid dynasty, 559 B.C.-330 B.C.
• ISBN: 9780674987388

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