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'Happiness for mankind' : Achaemenian religion and the imperial project /

The product of twenty years' research, this is the first book to study the way religious concerns permeated Achaemenian culture, deeply influencing such varied things as categories of space, time, number and causality, constructions of nature, humanity and moral order, institutions of law, edu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lincoln, Bruce
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leuven ; Walpole, Massachusetts : Peeters, 2012.
Series:	Acta Iranica ; 53.
Subjects:	Iran > Religion. Achaemenid dynasty, > 559 B.C.-330 B.C.

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