Table of Contents

Thucydides' Portrait of Tissaphernes Re-Examined (John Hyland); Xenophon's Wicked Persian, or What's Wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's Views on Lying and Breaking Oaths (Gabriel Danzig); On Persian Tryphe in Athenaeus (Dominique Lenfant); Treacherous Hearts and Upright Tiaras: the Achaemenid King's Head-dress (Christopher Tuplin); Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis (Alan Lloyd); Indigenous Aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia (Frederic Maffre); Hellenization and Lycian Cults during the Achaemenid Period (Eric Raimond); Babylonian Workers in the Persian Heartland during the reign of Cambyses (Wouter Henkelman & Kristin Kleber); Reading Persepolis in Greek: the Gifts of the Yauna (Margaret Cool Root); Boxus the Persian and the Hellenization of Persis (Nicholas Sekunda); The Philosopher's Zarathushtra (Phiroze Vasunia); Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? (Robin Lane Fox); 'Chilminar olim Persepolis': European Reception of a Persian Ruin (Lindsay Allen); Pottering around Persepolis: Observations on Early European Visitors to the Site (St John Simpson).

About the Author

Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. His publications include The Failings of Empire; Achaemenid Studies; Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture (co-editor with T.E.Rihll), Pontus and the Outside World (editor); Xenophon and his World (editor), and numerous research papers, mostly on the history or historiography of Achaemenid Persia and Classical Greece.

Reviews

The papers in Persian Responses are excellent examples of the new Persian historiography. They range widely over the whole field of Achaemenid studies and well illustrate the potential of the new critical approach to the sources characteristic of it to offer new insights into all aspects of Persian history. [...]... Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interactions with(in) the Achaemenid Empire will interest all scholars interested in Achaemenid history.' -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State U., Los Angeles Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.07.44