Ancient Persia
by Josef Wiesehofer
List Price:
Our Price: $15.93
You Save: $11.02 (41%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $14.82 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Josef WiesehoferEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-08-18
ISBN: 1860646751
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Book Reviews of Ancient Persia
Book Review: Interesting story but...
Summary: 1 Stars
The story the book tells is interesting but the Author, in my opinion is, sadly politically motivated. For example he Claims, (and masks his opinion as historical fact) that Cyrus the Great was a vicious king, as violent and ruthless as all the kings of his time and that his legacy of the first Bill of Rights, is nothing but propaganda. That should raise red flags everywhere.
Summary of Ancient Persia
Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia is one of the least understood. Josef Wieseh?fer's comprehensive survey of the Persian Empire under the Achaeminids, the Parthians, and the Sasanians focuses on the primary Persian sources--written, archaeological, and numismatic. He avoids the traditional Western approach which has tended to rely heavily on inaccurate Greek and Roman accounts. Part of the freshness of this book comes from its Near Eastern perspective.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in History books I want
The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000by T. M. Devine
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2001-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.55
Price in other shops:
From Bannockburn to Flodden: Wallace, Bruce, & the Heroes of Medieval Scotland (Tales of a Scottish Grandfather)by Walter, Sir Scott
Cumberland House Publishing; Published: 2001-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.16
Price in other shops:
From Montrose to Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie & Scotland's Romantic Age (Tales of a Scottish Grandfather Series)by Walter, Sir Scott
Cumberland House Publishing; Published: 2001-05-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.96
Price in other shops:
From Glencoe to Stirling: Rob Roy, the Highlanders & Scotlands Chivalric Age (Tales of a Scottish Grandfather 3)by Walter, Sir Scott
Cumberland House Publishing; Published: 2001-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.05
Price in other shops:
The Story of Scotlandby Nigel G. Tranter
Neil Wilson Publishing; Published: 1999-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.22
Price in other shops:
The Medieval English Archer: From the Anglo-Saxons to the Tudorsby John Harvey
Sutton Publishing; Published: 2005-03-31; Hardcover; Book
Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)by Geoff Egan, Frances Pritchard
Boydell Press; Published: 2004-05-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $91.99
Shoes and Pattens: Finds from Medieval Excavations in London (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London)by Francis Grew, Margrethe de Neergaard, Susan Mitford (illustrations)
Boydell Press; Published: 2004-03-11; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuriesby Mary G. Houston
Dover Publications; Published: 1996-04-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.76
Price in other shops:
Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154 Plates from the "Trachtenbuch"by Christoph Weiditz
Dover Publications; Published: 1994-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.00
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
The Soviet Centuryby Moshe Lewin, Gregory Elliott
Verso; Published: 2005-04-25; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.34
Price in other shops:
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the Westby Tom Holland
Anchor; Published: 2007-06-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.01
Price in other shops:
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of Historyby Jean-Pierre Chr?tien
Zone Books; Published: 2006-10-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $17.07
Price in other shops:
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso Classics, 2)by Perry Anderson
Verso; Published: 1996-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $17.08
Price in other shops:
Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Library of Religious Beliefs & Practices)by Mary Boyce
Routledge; Published: 2001-02-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $35.84
Price in other shops:
Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kingsby Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Viking Adult; Published: 2006-03-02; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $22.20
Price in other shops:
Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism (Textual Sources for the Study of Religion)University Of Chicago Press; Published: 1990-10-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.00
Price in other shops:
The Persian Empireby Lindsay Allen
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2005-12-20; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $24.99
Price in other shops:
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient PersiaUniversity of California Press; Published: 2005-11-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $44.00
Price in other shops:
History of the Persian Empire (Phoenix Books)by A.T. Olmstead
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 1959-02-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.00
Price in other shops: