The specialized bibliography is wide-ranging. References to specific problems addressed in the text are included in the endnotes for each chapter. Selected examples of illustrative works cited here are primarily in English.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Achemenet: http://www.achemenet.com/

Encyclopaedia Iranica: http://www.iranicaonline.org/

Livius: http://www.livius.org/persia.html

ACHAEMENID HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Achaemenid History Series, multiple volumes with different editors, published by Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden

L. Allen, Persian Empire, 2005

J. Álvarez-Mon and M. Garrison (eds.), Elam and Persia, 2011

P. Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, translated by P. Daniels, 2002

P. Briant, W. Henkelman, and M. Stolper, L’archive des Fortii cations de Pers é polis. État des questions et perspectives de recherches, 2008

M. Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, 2006

M. Brosius, Women in Ancient Persia (559–331 B.C.), 1996

J. M. Cook, The Persian Empire, 1983

J. Curtis and St. John Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art, and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East, 2010

J. Curtis and N. Tallis (eds.), Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia, 2005

M. Dandamaev, A Political History of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, translated by W. J. Vogelsang, 1989

E. Dusinberre, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, 2013

K. Farroukh, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War, 2007

L. Fried, The Priest and the Great King: Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire, 2004

R. Frye, The History of Ancient Iran, 1984

T. Harrison, Writing Ancient Persia, 2011

K. Hoglund, Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine and the Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah, 1992

B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger (eds.), Der Achämenidenhof/The Achaemenid Court, 2010

A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period , 2007

A. T. Olmstead, History of the Persian Empire , 1948