Alexander histories and Iranian reflections : : remnants of propaganda and resistance / / Parivash Jamzadeh.
Alexander the Great’s military campaign to conquer the Achaemenid empire included a propaganda campaign to convince the Iranians his kingship was compatible with their religious and cultural norms. This campaign proved so successful that the overt display of Alexander’s Iranian and Zoroastrian prefe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Persian Cultural History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- I The Plight of the Achaemenid Royal Women
- II Darius’ Letters to Alexander and the Responses: Ideology of Conquest in Retrospect
- III The Campaign for Persia in Iranian and Zoroastrian Lights
- IV Darius’ Last Days and Counter-Propagandas
- V Bessus’ Fate
- VI Alexander’s Persian Attire
- VII Reflections from Darius I’s Rhetoric
- VIII Zoroastrian Echoes in Alexander Histories
- IX Iranian Echoes in Mutiny’s Accounts
- X Alexander’s Final Days and Iranian Reflections
- XI Alexander’s Entombment and Iranian Echoes
- XII The Plight of Alexander’s Family
- XIII Reverence for the Fravashī of Alexander
- XIV Testimony of Zoroastrian Sources
- XV Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index.