The Persian Empire : A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (Paperback)

1. The Sources Part I. Prehistory and Formation of the Empire (c.750-520) 2. The Medes 3. Cyrus the Great 4. The Reign of Cambyses 5. From Cambyses to Darius I Part II. Achaemenid History and its Problems 6. The Empire under Darius I: Expansion, Revolt, Consolidation 7. The Reign of Xerxes 8. From Artaxerxes I to Darius II's Last Years 9. Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III 10. The Fall of the Achaemenid EmpirePart III. Kings and Kingship 11. Images of Empire, Royal Ideology and the Cultic Framework 12. The Organisation of the Court 13. Mechanisms of Power Part IV. Achaemenid Imperial Organisation 14. Tribute, Tax, Imposts 15. Routes and Communication Networks 16. Bureaucracy, Production, Settlement 17. Unity and Diversity