Ancient History magazine 20 (PDF)

Ancient History Magazine 20 (PDF)

Theme: A multitude of people: the Achaemenid empire

• John Curtis, 'Introduction to an empire - Welcome to Achaemenid Persia'.
• Sidney E. Dean, 'Cyrus the Great's policy of religious tolerance and benign rule - Enlightenment or calculation'.
• Irene Madreiter, 'Achaemenid queens: between fact and fiction - Loving mothers, viragos, poisoners?'.
• Touraj Daryaee, 'The Achaemenid commonwealth project - Holding the empire together'.
• Jona Lendering, 'Why did Alexander burn Persepolis - Sacker of cities'.
• D.T. Potts, '"Glamping" in the Achaemenid empire - The tent of the great king'

Features:

• Manon Henzen, 'Clay tablet recipes - Mesopotamian lamb stew'.
• Arienne King, 'An Egyptian goddess among Olympians - The cult of Isis in ancient Greece'.
• Alana N. Newman, 'Cultivating the royal persona - Arsinoë II as the people's queen'.
• Lindsay Powell, 'The boy made god revived - Ave, vive, Antinoe!'.
• Angela Pisani, 'Ancient history book reviews - Mythos'.