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Persia : ancient Iran and the classical world / edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole.

Van Pelt Library DS260.7 .P47 2022
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Spier, Jeffrey, editor.
Potts, Timothy F., editor.
Cole, Sara E., editor.
J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Standardized Title:
Persia (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Iran--Antiquities--Exhibitions.
Iran.
Iran--Civilization--To 640--Exhibitions.
Classical antiquities--Exhibitions.
Classical antiquities.
Civilization, Classical--Exhibitions.
Civilization, Classical.
Iran--Relations--Greece--Exhibitions.
Greece--Relations--Iran--Exhibitions.
Greece.
Iran--Relations--Rome--Exhibitions.
Rome--Relations--Iran--Exhibitions.
Rome.
Antiquities.
Civilization.
International relations.
Rome (Empire).
Genre:
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:
xiii, 418 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plans ; 30 cm
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2022]
Summary:
"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from April 6, 2022, to August 8, 2022"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE 550
330 BC
Map
Time Line of Achaemenid Kings
Persia before the Persians / Timothy Potts
Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran: Elamites, Medes, and Persians / Wouter F. M. Henkelman
Kingship in the Achaemenid Empire / Robert Rollinger
Visual Arts of Collective Imperial Identity: From Persepolis to the Mediterranean / Margaret Cool Root
The Greco-Persian Wars: Image, Effect, and Afterlife / Margaret C. Miller
Greeks, Lydians, Carians, and Lycians in Achaemenid Asia Minor / Jeffrey Spier
Persia in Cyprus / Antigoni Zournatzi
The Achaemenid Empire: Catalogue 1
78
pt. 2 THE PARTHIAN EMPIRE ca. 247 BC
AD 224
Time Line of Seleucid and Arsacid Kings and Roman Emperors
Alexander the Great and the Seleucids: Iran in the Hellenistic Period (ca. 330
150 BC) / Rolf Strootman
The Parthian Empire / Jake Nabel
Parthia and the Geography of Empire / Stefan R. Hauser
In Search of Parthian Art: Arsacid Influence in the Representational Arts of the Parthian Empire / Luanda Dirven
Religion in the Parthian Empire / Albert de Jong
Greek in Asia: Understanding Hellenism in Susa and Seleucia on the Tigris / Miguel John Versluys
The Parthian Empire Catalogue 79
144
pt. 3 THE SASANIAN EMPIRE AD 224
651
Time Line of Sasanian Kings and Roman and Byzantine Emperors
The Sasanian Empire / M. Rahim Shayegan
The Royal Image in Ancient Persia / Matthew P. Canepa
Persia and Rome: The Historical and Ideological Gaze / Touraj Daryaee
Epilogue: The End of Antiquity in Iran and the Postclassical Inheritance / Hugh Kennedy
The Sasanian Empire Catalogue 145
209.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
ISBN:
9781606066805
1606066803
OCLC:
1266642494
Publisher Number:
40031092489

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