Persia : ancient Iran and the classical world / edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole.

Contributor Spier, Jeffrey, editor.

ImprintLos Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2022]

Imprint2022

Descriptionxiii, 418 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm

Note:"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from April 6, 2022, to August 8, 2022." --Title page verso.

Note:Part 1. The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC -- Map -- Time Line of Achaemenid Kings -- Persia Before the Persians / Timothy Potts -- Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran: Elamites, Medes, and Persians / Wouter F. M. Henkelman -- Kingship in the Achaemenid Empire / Robert Rollinger -- Visual Arts of Collective Imperial Identity: from Persepolis to the Mediterranean / Margaret Cool Root -- The Greco-Persian Wars: Image, Effect, and Afterlife / Margaret C. Miller -- Greeks, Lydians, Carians, and Lycians in Achaemenid Asia Minor / Jeffrey Spier -- Persia in Cyprus / Antigoni Zournatzi -- The Achaemenid Empire: Catalogue 1-78 -- Part 2. The Parthian Empire, ca. 247 BC-AD 224 -- Map -- Time Line of Seleucid and Arsacid Kings and Roman Emperors -- Alexander the Great and the Seleucids: Iran in the Hellenistic Period (ca. 330-150 BC) / Rolf Strootman -- The Parthian Empire / Jake Nabel -- Parthia and the Geography of Empire / Stefan R. Hauser -- In Search of Parthian Art: Arsacid Influence in the Representational Arts of the Parthian Empire / Lucinda Dirven -- Religion in the Parthian Empire / Albert de Jong -- Greek in Asia: Understanding Hellenism in Susa and Seleucia on the Tigris / Vito Messina and Miguel John Versluys -- The Parthian Empire: Catalogue 79-144 -- Part 3.The Sasanian Empire: AD 224-561 -- Map -- Time Line of Sasanian Kings and Roman and Byzantine Emperors -- The Sasanian Empire / M. Rahim Shayegan -- The Royal Image in Ancient Persia / Matthew P. Canepa -- Persia and Rome: the Historical and Ideological Gaze / Touraj Daryaee -- Epilogue: the End of Antiquity in Iran and the Postclassical Inheritance / Hugh Kennedy -- The Sasanian Empire: Catalogue 145-209.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index.

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