Persia
There are 1590 items in Persia:
Amestris
Amestris or Amastris: wife of the Persian king Xerxes, mother of king Artaxerxes I. Her reputation among Greek historians is very bad. …
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Amminapes
Amminapes: Parthian nobleman, who played a role in the struggle between the Achaemenid Empire and Alexander the Great. A Parthian. Relief…Amorges
Amorges: son of Pissuthnes, satrap of Lydia, continued his father's revolt against the Achaemenid king Darius II Nothus.Pissuthnes had been the satrap of Lydia for at least two decades when he decided to revolt against king Darius II Nothus in…Amorges
Our main source for the history of the Peloponnesian War is the Athenian author Thucydides, but he sometimes makes mistakes. One of these is a blind eye for Persian influence on the war. As a consequence, he underestimated the importance…
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An Achaemenid king killing a Greek hoplite |
An Achaemenid Royal Inscription from Hamadan
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.An inscription on a column base from Ecbatana …An Amulet with the Name of Darius
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.An Amulet with the Name of Darius …Anahita
Anahita, also known as Anaitis (Greek: Ἀναῖτις) and Anahit (Armenian): Iranian water goddess. Anahita with ring and jar (Taq-e Bostan) Anahita was…Anšan (Tell Malyan)
Anšan: Bronze Age settlement in Iran, now known as Tell Malyan and Tall-e Malyan. Although the site was abandoned in the Middle Elamite period, the title King of Anšan remained in use to describe the most powerful ruler in this…Apame I
Apame I: Iranian lady, wife of Seleucus I Nicator, queen in the Seleucid Empire.Relatives Father: Spitamenes, one of the leaders of the Iranian resistance against the Macedonian conquest Husband: Seleucus I Nicator Children: Antiochus I Soter Main deeds 324: During the Susa weddings, Apame marries…