'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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| Language: | English |
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Leuven ; Walpole, Massachusetts :
Peeters,
2012.
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| Series: | Acta Iranica ;
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Table of Contents:
- I. The politics of the Persian paradise : (the Paris lectures) 1. À la recherche du paradis perdu
- 2. The King's truth
- 3. Space, motion, and climate in the Achaemenian imaginary
- 4. Il faut cultiver notre jardin : on Achaemenian horticulture and imperialism
- Appendix to chapter four : Zoroastrian mythology of plants : synoptic table
- 5. Implications of grammatical number in the mythology of vegetation
- II. Human unity and the diversity of peoples in Achaemenian myth, art, and ideology : (the Siena lectures)
- 6. Bisitun and Persepolis
- 7. Naqš-ī Rustam
- 8. The unity and diversity of peoples in later Iranian history
- 9. Sacred Kingship?
- III. Aesthetics and the demonic : (lectures, 2008-9)
- 10. Creation and other epiphanies in Achaemenian religion
- 11. The geography of creation
- 12. Representing the lie in Achaemenian Persia
- 13. Representing the lie in Mazdaean Iran
- 14. On Zoroastrian and Achaemenian demonology
- 15. Happiness regained
- IV. Greeks and Persians
- 16. Herodotus as anthropologist
- 17. On the sisterhood of Europe and Asia
- 18. Myth and diplomacy : Persian overtures to the Argives
- 19. Aeschylus's Persians and the categorical cpposition of East and West
- 20. On Persian pedagogy and Greek machismo
- V. Varia
- 21. The Wise Lord's will and the making of wonders
- 22. Cosmogonic myth and dynastic crisis
- 23. Rebellion and treatment of rebels
- 24. Happiness, law, and fear
- 25. Big and little in old Persian
- 26. Ancestors, corpses, kings, and the land
- 27. The bifurcated cosmos of Mazdaean Religion / with Clarisse Herrenschmidt)
- 28. Cosmology and hydraulics
- 29. Reflections after the fact.