Matt Waters (Eau Claire University of Wisconsin)

Broschiertes Buch

Ancient Persia

Beschreibung

In this succinct history of ancient Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty rulers, Matt Waters examines how the empire retained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c.550â 330 BCE) and left a massive imprint on subsequent Near Eastern and European history.

Autor

Matt Waters is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He is the author of A Survey of Neo-Elamite History (2000), and his work has appeared in numerous journals, including Iran, Revue d'Assyriologie and the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Waters is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities. He was awarded the Jonas C. Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society in 2006 for the best published article in ancient Near Eastern studies in a three-year period by a scholar under the age of forty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521253697
• ISBN-10: 0521253691
• Artikelnr.: 40128744