The Priest and the Great King : : Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire / / Lisbeth Fried.
Lisbeth S. Fried's insightful study investigates the impact of Achaemenid rule on the political power of local priesthoods during the 6th-4th centuries B.C.E. Scholars typically assume that, as long as tribute was sent to Susa, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, subject peoples remained auto...
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