Alexander Histories and Iranian Reflections: Remnants of Propaganda and Resistance

Name: Alexander Histories and Iranian Reflections: Remnants of Propaganda and Resistance
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ISBN: 9789004217461

ISBN-10: 9004217460

ISBN-13: 9789004217461

Edition: 2012

Authors: Parivash Jamzadeh

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Parivash Jamzadeh demonstrates how the propaganda material used during Alexander the Great's military campaign to conquer the Achaemenid empire shows multiple layers of Iranian influences.

Book details

List price: $136.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Plight of the Achaemenid Royal Women



According to Ancestral Custom



Alexander and Darius' Mother



Alexander and Darius' Wife



Alexander and the Granddaughter of Ochus



Episodes in Cyropaedia



Darius' Letters to Alexander and the Responses: Ideology of Conquest in Retrospect



The Campaign for Persia in Iranian & Zoroastrian Lights



Alexander's Advances and Tribulations



Mutilated Greek Captives' Story



Persepolis' Final Fate and the Sources' Arguments



Darius' Last Days & Counter-Propagandas



Bessus' Fate



Alexander's Persian Attire



Reflections from Darius I's Rhetoric



Alexander as a Mock-Divinity



The Incident of Cyrus' Tomb



The King and the Ideology of Truth



Bessus' Punishment



Darius I's World Order



Zoroastrian Echoes in Alexander Histories



Zoroastrian References in the Story of Clitus



The Boar Motif and its Zoroastrian Relevance



The Sogdian Campaign and its Zoroastrian Features



Iranian and Zoroastrian Features of Hephaestion's Funeral



Iranian Echoes in Mutiny's Accounts



Alexander's Final Days and Iranian Reflections



Alexander's Entombment and Iranian Echoes



The Plight of Alexander's Family



Reverence for the Fravash&ibar; of Alexander



Testimony of Zoroastrian Sources



Concluding Remarks


Bibliography


Index