in Late Antiquity
Edited by Josef Lössl and Nicholas Baker‐Brian
A Companion to Aeschylus
Edited by Peter Burian
A COMPANION TO THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE
Volume I
Edited by
Bruno Jacobs
University of Basel
Robert Rollinger
University of Innsbruck
This edition first published 2021
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Notes on Contributors
Javier Álvarez‐Mon is Professor in Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His primary research interests are the art, archeology, and culture of the ancient Iranian civilizations of Elam and early Persia, and the study and preservation of the cultural heritage of ancient Iran.
Reinhold Bichler is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His main research subjects are the history of political ideas, especially ancient utopias, Greek historiography and ethnography, especially Herodotus and Ctesias, and the reception of ancient history, in particular Alexander and the concept of Hellenism.
Carsten Binder teaches Ancient History at the University of Duisburg‐Essen. Besides the history of the Achaemenid Empire his scholarly work focuses on ancient historiography, biography, and ethnography.
Dilyana Boteva‐Boyanova is Professor at the St Climent Ohridski University of Sofia. The focus of her research is the history and culture of ancient Thrace both during the 1st millennium BCE and within the Roman Empire (1st ‐4th century CE). She has authored three books and edited seven miscellanea.
Rémy Boucharlat is a Senior Researcher Emeritus at the CNRS, at the University of Lyon, France. He took part in excavations at Susa and Tureng Tepe (Iran). Later he directed excavations in the UAE. Between 1999 and 2009 he conducted archeological reconnaissances at Pasargadae and Persepolis, and took part in excavations in southern Central Asia. Most of his books and articles concern the archeology of the first millennium BCE, the Achaemenid and Sasanian empires in Iran, and the Persian Gulf.
Anna Cannavò is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Maison de l’Orient, Lyon (France). She is director of the French archeological mission at Amathus. She specializes in the history and epigraphy of the Cypriot kingdoms.
Touraj Daryaee is the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and the Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He works on the history and culture of the ancient Iranian world.
Julian Degen holds a post‐Doc position at the University of Trier. He received his PhD from Innsbruck in 2020. His main research interests are Greek historiography, Alexander the Great, intercultural contacts between East and West, and Ancient Near Eastern history of the first millennium BCE.
Elspeth Dusinberre is Professor in Classics at the University of Colorado and author of Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (2003), Gordion Seals and Sealings (2005), and Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (2013). She studies the seal impressions on the Persepolis Fortification Archive Aramaic tablets and Gordion’s cremation burials.
Josette Elayi is Honorary Researcher at the French National Council of Scientific Research. She is the author of 25 books specializing in Phoenician studies, three books specializing in Assyrian studies, two essays related to the future of ancient history, and six novels. She created and edits the journal Transeuphratène and the collection of Supplements to Transeuphratène.
Mark B. Garrison holds the Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professorship in Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His primary research interests are the glyptic arts of ancient Iran and Iraq in the first half of the first millennium BCE.
Jean‐Jacques Glassner is Director of Research Emeritus, a former member of CNRS, and taught at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His publications include The Invention of