Alexander III between east and west
Degen, Julian. 2022. Alexander III. zwischen Ost und West: Indigene Traditionen und Herrschaftsinszenierung im makedonischen Weltimperium (Oriens et Occidens 39). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. Die...
View ArticleThe fall of Babylon
Joannès, Francis. 2022. La chute de Babylone: 12 octobre 539 avant notre ere. Paris: Fallandier. Le 12 octobre 539 avant notre ère, l’antique et splendide ville de Babylone tombe aux mains du roi perse...
View ArticleA Companion to Procopius of Caesarea
Meier, Mischa & Federico Montinaro (eds.). 2021. A companion to Procopius of Caesarea (Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World 11). Leiden: Brill. This volume offers an extensive introduction to...
View ArticleAncient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology
Bianconi, Michele, Marta Capano, Domenica Romagno & Francesco Rovai (eds.). 2022. Ancient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology: Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction (Brill’s...
View ArticleThree Women from Elam
Rafiei-Alavi, Babak, Faranak Bahrololoumi & Sabine Klein. 2022. Three Women from Elam: A Revision of the Haft Tappeh Metal Plaque. BASOR 387, 171-180. The metal plaque of Haft Tappeh was found more...
View ArticleChogha Zanbil // چغازنبیل
مفیدی نصرآبادی، بهزاد. ۱۴۰۰. چغازنبیل: بافت شهری و جنبههای معماری در ایلام باستان. تهران: انتشارات دکتر محمود افشار. Mofidi Nasrabadi, Behzad. 2022. Choghā Zanbil: Bāft-e shahrī va janbah-hā-ye...
View ArticleThe Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
Matthews, Roger & Hassan Fazeli Nashli. 2022. The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire. London: Routledge. The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the...
View ArticleA Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire
Häberl, Charles G. The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World. A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire. Liverpool University Press, 2022. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran are...
View ArticleIran and the Caucasus
The latest issue of Iran and the Caucasus (26.1) contains several interesting contributions. Table of contents: Preliminary Material (Editors) Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in...
View ArticleThe History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
Tor, D. G. & Minoru Inaba (eds.). 2022. The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press. This volume examines...
View ArticleThe Reward of the Righteous. Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze
Cantera, Alberto, Maria Macuch, and Nicholas Sims-Williams, eds., The Reward of the Righteouse. Festschrift in Honour of Almut Hintze, Iranica, 30 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022) The volume is...
View ArticleEating Meat: The Sin of Zoroastrian Primordial Heroes and Villains
Caseau, Béatrice, and Hervé Monchot, eds., ‘Eaing Meat: The Sin of Daryaee, Touraj, ‘Eating Meat: The Sin of Zoroastrian Primordial Heroes and Villains’, in Religion et interdits alimentaires....
View ArticlePersian Influence on Daniel and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Dobroruka, Vicente. 2022. Persian influence on Daniel and Jewish apocalyptic literature (Jewish and Christian Texts in Context and related Studies, 19). London: Bloomsbury. Vicente Dobroruka explores...
View ArticleTo Be or Not to Be (Divine)
Waters, Matt. 2021. To Be or Not to Be (Divine): The Achaemenid King and Essential Ambiguity in Image, Text, and Historical Context. In: Karen Sonik (ed.), Art/ifacts and ArtWorks in the Ancient World,...
View ArticleComparison and Gradation in Indo-European
Keydana, Götz, Wolfgang Hock & Paul Widmer (eds.). 2021. Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European (The Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology, 1). Berlin: De Gruyter. The ability to compare is...
View ArticleAncient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology
Bianconi, Michele, Marta Capano, Domenica Romagno & Francesco Rovai (eds.). 2022. Ancient Indo-European Languages between Linguistics and Philology: Contact, Variation, and Reconstruction (Brill’s...
View ArticleThe Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars
Kambouris, Manousos E. 2022. The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars: The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon. Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. Manousos...
View ArticleCentaurs and Gandharves
Janda, Michael. Kentauren und Gandharven. Verlag Thomas Kubo UG, 2022. How the idea of half-man, half-horse creatures came into the world has puzzled poets, scholars and writers since antiquity. With...
View ArticleCulinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World
Farridnejad, Shervin, and Touraj Daryaee, editors. Food for Gods, Food for Mortals. Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World. University of Californoa, Irvine, 2022. Preparing,...
View ArticleTranslations from Greek into Middle Persian asRepatriated Knowledge
Zakeri, Mohsen. 2022. Translations from Greek into Middle Persian as Repatriated Knowledge. In: Dimitri Gutas (ed.), Why Translate Science? Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the...
View Article