Sources, Structures and Syntheses
Proceedings of the Groningen 1983 Achaemenid History Workshop
1987 (Achaemenid History vol. 1)
XIV, 196 pp. softcover
ISBN-13: 978-90-6258-401-7
This volume confronts the question of the presumed 'decadence' of later Persian history: the various contributions establish that such a decline is more the product of the way our perceptions have been structured, than the available sources bear out when critically re-examined.