For over two millennia, the Cyropaedia, an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work and considered his masterpiece. This study …
The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of …
This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the near East. Spanning the ancient and medieval worlds, it investigates the shared ideal of sacred …
