Persia : ancient Iran and the classical world

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2022] and ©2022

Subject:

Iran - Antiquities - Exhibitions
Iran - Civilization - To 640 - Exhibitions
Classical antiquities - Exhibitions
Civilization, Classical - Exhibitions
Iran - Relations - Greece - Exhibitions
Greece - Relations - Iran - Exhibitions
Iran - Relations - Rome - Exhibitions
Rome - Relations - Iran - Exhibitions

Contributor:

Spier, Jeffrey, editor
Potts, Timothy F., editor
Cole, Sara E., editor
J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body

ISBN:

9781606066805 and 1606066803

Description:

xiii, 418 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index

Contents:

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 -- The Parthian Empire, ca. 247 BC-AD 224 -- Map -- 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 / Lucinda Dirven -- Religion in the Parthian Empire / Albert de Jong -- Greek in Asia: Understanding Hellenism in Susa and Seleucia on the Tigris / Vito Messina and Miguel John Versluys -- The Parthian Empire: Catalogue 79-144 -- The Sasanian Empire: AD 224-561 -- Map -- 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

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

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

DS260.7 .P47 2022

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