Arsacids, Romans and Local Elites
Schlude, Jason & Benjamin Rubin (eds.). 2017. Arsacids, Romans and local elites: Cross-cultural interactions of the Parthian Empire. Oxbow Books. For almost 500 years (247 BCE–224 CE), the Arsacid...
View ArticleHousehold and Family Religion in Persian-Period Judah
Gallarreta, Jose E. Balcells. 2017. Household and Family Religion in Persian-Period Judah: An Archaeological Approach (Ancient Near East Monographs 18), SBL Press. Balcells Gallarreta investigates the...
View ArticleStudies on the Seleukid Empire between East and West
Engels, David. 2017. Benefactors, Kings, Rulers. Studies on the Seleukid Empire between East and West (Studia Hellenistica 57). Leuven: Peeters. The present volume contains a series of critical studies...
View ArticleRevolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East
Collins, John & J.G. Manning. 2016. Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East: In the Crucible of Empire. Leiden: Brill. This collection of essays contains a state of...
View ArticleFrederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer
Lanzillotta, Lautaro Roig with the collaboration of Luisa Lesage (eds.). 2017. Frederick E. Brenk on Plutarch, Religious Thinker and Biographer. Leiden: Brill. The present book Frederick E. Brenk:...
View ArticleThe Coinage of the “Iranian” Huns and Western Turks
Alram, Michael. 2016. Das Antlitz des Fremden: die Münzprägung der Hunnen und Westtürken in Zentralasien und Indien. (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums 17). Wien: Verlag der österreichischen...
View ArticleHISTORIA I ŚWIAT
The sixth issue of Historia i Świat (2017) has been published. Many papers of this issue are related to our interest: Svyatoslav V. SMIRNOV: Notes on Timarchos’ Iconography: Dioscuri Type Mozhgan...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of Mithras: A Different Account
Mastrocinque, Attilio. 2017. The Mysteries of Mithras: A Different Account. (Orientalische Religionen in Der Antike). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. In this work, Attilio Mastrocinque cautions against an...
View ArticleAdministration in the Achaemenid Empire
Jacobs, Bruno, Wouter F. M. Henkelman & Matthew W. Stolper (eds.). 2017. Die Verwaltung im Achämenidenreich – Imperiale Muster und Strukturen. Administration in the Achaemenid Empire – Tracing the...
View ArticleThe Garden of Pasargadae
Grob, Helge Bert. 2017. Die Gartenlandschaft von Pasargadai und ihre Wasseranlagen Topographischer Befund, Rekonstruktion und achaimenidischer Kontext. (Oriens et Occidens 28). Stuttgart:...
View ArticleThe Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes
Nawotka, Krzysztof. 2017. The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes. Leiden: Brill. The Alexander Romance by Ps.-Callisthenes of Krzysztof Nawotka is a guide to a third century AD fictional biography...
View ArticleApostasy and Repentance in Early Medieval Zoroastrianism
Kiel, Yishai & Prods Oktor Skjærvø. 2017. Apostasy and Repentance in Early Medieval Zoroastrianism. Journal of the American Oriental Society 137(2). 221–243. The Middle Persian (Pahlavi) literature...
View ArticleA Review of Christian Arab sources for the Sasanian Period
Amiri Bavandpour, Sajad. 2017. “A Review of Christian Arab sources for the Sasanian Period“, e-Sasanika 19. This article in Persian reviews all the important Christian Arab sources for the study of...
View ArticleThe Sarmatians: Some Thoughts on the Historiographical Invention of a West...
Dan, Anca. 2017. “The Sarmatians: Some Thoughts on the Historiographical Invention of a West Iranian Migration“, In Felix Wiedemann, Kerstin P. Hofmann and Hans-Joachim Gehrke (eds.). Vom Wandern der...
View ArticleDisplaying Royal Tribute Animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd. 2017. Keeping and Displaying Royal Tribute Animals in Ancient Persia and the Near East. In Thorsten Fögen & Edmund Thomas (eds.), Interactions between Animals and Humans in...
View ArticleIranian, Manichaean and Central Asian Studies in Memoriam Sundermann
Einem Team „Turfanforschung“. 2017. Zur lichten Heimat. Studien zu Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann. (Iranica 25). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Werner...
View ArticleDadabhai Naoroji and Orientalist scholarship on Zoroastrianism
Patel, Dinyar. 2017. Our own religion in ancient Persia: Dadabhai Naoroji and Orientalist scholarship on Zoroastrianism. Global Intellectual History. 1–18. Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) is today best...
View ArticleDabir Journal – Issue 04
Issue 04 of DABIR (Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review) Issue 04 of Dabir, an open access on-line journal for Iranian Studies, is out now. Dabir is published by the Jordan Center for...
View ArticleIranian Mithra vs. Roman Mithras
Lahe, Jaan. 2017. Zu möglichen Verbindungen zwischen römischem Mithras und iranischem Mithra. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 25(2). 233–262. From the end of 19th century, when the Roman Mithras...
View ArticleDarius I and Divinity
Greater Glory: Darius I and Divinity in Achaemenid Royal Ideology A lecture by Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) Organised by the Pourdavoud Center For more information, click on the...
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