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Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
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Description for Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
hardcover. A revolutionary take on the Achaemenid Persian Empire and empire studies in general. Num Pages: 342 pages, 100 b/w illus. 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1QDAM; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 28. Weight in Grams: 900.
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a fresh approach to understanding the Achaemenid Empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual sources to demonstrate that the two-hundred-year Persian presence in this city had a profound impact on local social structures, revealing the region's successful absorption, both ideological and physical, into the Persian Empire. During this period, Sardis was a centre of burgeoning creativity and vitality, where a polyethnic elite devised a fresh culture - inspired by Iranian, Greek and local Lydian traditions - that drew on and legitimated imperial ideology. The non-elite ... Read more
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a fresh approach to understanding the Achaemenid Empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual sources to demonstrate that the two-hundred-year Persian presence in this city had a profound impact on local social structures, revealing the region's successful absorption, both ideological and physical, into the Persian Empire. During this period, Sardis was a centre of burgeoning creativity and vitality, where a polyethnic elite devised a fresh culture - inspired by Iranian, Greek and local Lydian traditions - that drew on and legitimated imperial ideology. The non-elite ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521810715
SKU
V9780521810715
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About Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre
Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (PhD, Michigan, 1997) is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia, particularly in the ways in which the Achaemenid Empire affected local social structures and in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures. Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (her first book) examines such issues from the vantage of the Lydian capital, while her third book, Empire, ... Read more
Reviews for Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
"...this book brings together a diverse array of evidence and makes a significant contribution to the growing field of Achaemenid Anatolian studies, with an insightful and progressive theoretical approach." Journal of Field Archaelogy "...Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis is carefully written, methodologically well informed and thoughtfully argued." BMCR "...Dusinberre's book brings Sardis studies forward in ... Read more