Format:
1 online resource (1747 pages)
ISBN:
9781119071808
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Volume I -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Detailed Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- SECTION I Introduction -- SECTION II Geography and Demography -- CHAPTER 1 Geography and Climate -- References -- CHAPTER 2 Demoscopy and Demography -- Object of Research and Method -- The Sources and Their Relevance -- Notes -- References -- CHAPTER 3 Peoples and Languages -- Introduction: The Territory of the Achaemenid Empire -- The Internal Ethnic Diversity of the Achaemenid Empire -- The Languages of the Achaemenid Empire: An Overview -- Language and Administration in the Achaemenid Empire -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 4 Languages and Script -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 5 Onomastics -- Personal Names: Evidence -- Iranian Names -- Particulars -- Non-Iranian Names -- Geographical Names -- References -- Further Reading -- SECTION III Sources -- A Written Sources -- CHAPTER 6 The Inscriptions of the Achaemenids -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 7 Elamite Sources -- Introduction -- Elamite Language -- Royal Inscriptions -- Administrative Texts -- Seal Inscriptions -- Elamite Sources of Old Iranian -- Variation and Contact -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 8 Babylonian Sources -- Introduction -- Survey of Archival Texts -- Library Texts -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 9 Aramaic Sources -- Achaemenid Official Aramaic -- Documentary Texts -- Literary Compositions -- Aftermath -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 10 Biblical Sources -- Epigraphical Sources -- Literary Sources -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 11 Phoenician Sources -- The Inscriptions of the Four Main Phoenician Cities -- Other Inscriptions from the Levantine Seashore -- Inscriptions from Cyprus -- Other Inscriptions from the Persian Empire -- NOTE -- References.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119174288
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781119174288
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire Hoboken : Wiley Blackwell, 2021 ISBN 9781119174288
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Author information:
Rollinger, Robert 1964-
Author information:
Jacobs, Bruno 1954-
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