The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period
by Amélie Kuhrt
A large collection of sources—from Greek and other languages, as well as Persian—that shed light on the workings and culture of the ancient Persian Empire.
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“This is an amazing compendium of all types of sources on the Persian Empire. It utilises old Persian inscriptions, all in translation, Babylonian texts, Aramaic texts, Hebrew texts, Greek and Latin texts. They’re all there in translation and with Kuhrt’s very useful, very competent and very intelligent commentaries as well. She’s one of the great names in ancient Near Eastern studies and I admire her very much.” Read more...
“What Kuhrt provides us with is a clear idea of how the Empire functioned because, broadly speaking, it carried on much the same throughout the fifth and fourth centuries. Some of the material Kurt includes are Greek reports of Persia, so it’s not all Persian documents. It does include contemporary-ish Greek sources.” Read more...
