Section outline

  • Reading

    • M. W. Waters, “The Achaemenid Persian Empire: From the Medes to Alexander,” in OWHE, 111-36
    • H. P. Colburn (cough), “Globalization and the Study of the Achaemenid Persian Empire,” in T. Hodos (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (London: Routledge, 2017), 871-84
    • P. Briant, “From the Mediterranean to the Indus Valley: Modalities and Limitations of the Achaemenid Imperial Space,” in Y. Pines et al. (ed.), The Limits of Universal Rule: Eurasian Empires Compared (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 49-78
    • W. M. F. Henkelman, “Imperial Signature and Imperial Paradigm: Achaemenid Administrative Structure and System across and beyond the Iranian Plateau,” in B. Jacobs, W. F. M. Henkelman, and M. W. Stolper (ed.), Die Verwaltung im Achämenidenreich = Administration in the Achaemenid Empire (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017), 45-256 (no need to read past p. 186)
    • M. C. Root, “Medes and Iranian Identity in the Achaemenid Social Imaginary: The Persepolis Apadana,” in M. B. Garrison and W. F. M. Henkelman (ed.), The Persian World and Beyond: Achaemenid and Arsacid Studies in Honour of Bruno Jacobs (Münster: Zaphon, 2023), 75-148