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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

byLloyd Llewellyn-Jones

The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. The argument in Persians develops through archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the age of the great kings to larger questions in history, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences. Rather than reducing its subject to a single lesson, Persians preserves its contradictions and shows why they remain important.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

432

ISBN

9781541600348