Persians: The Age of The Great Kings
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
In Persians: The Age of the Great Kingsby Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the history of the Achaemenid Persian Empire—the largest empire of antiquity—from the point of view of the Persians. The book starts in 1000 BCE and ends in 330 BCE, after Alexander the III (aka the Great)’s defeat of Darius III. As Llewellyn-Jones points out, it’s also the story of “one of the great dysfunctional families of history.”
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