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Zoroastrianism and Ancient Iranian Religion

From Cyrus to Alexander

A History of the Persian Empire

by Pierre Briant · Peter T. Daniels (trans.)

The standard large-scale history of the Achaemenid empire, translated from the French original of 1996. Briant reconstructs the empire from Persian, Elamite, Babylonian and Greek evidence, with substantial discussion of royal ideology and religion.

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