Explore the secrets of one of the greatest empires in the ancient world from a fresh perspective: its own.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Rethinking the Persian Empire
- 02: Questioning the Sources
- 03: The World before Cyrus
- 04: Cyrus and Cambyses - Founders of the Empire
- 05: Darius I - Creator of the Imperial System
- 06: Persian Capitals and Royal Palaces
- 07: The Great King - Images and Realities
- 08: Royal Roads and Provinces
- 09: East of Persepolis
- 10: Challenges in the West, 513 - 494 B.C.
- 11: Across the Bitter Sea, 493 - 490 B.C.
- 12: Xerxes Becomes King
- 13: Xerxes's War, 480 - 479 B.C.
- 14: Cultures in Contact
- 15: Achaemenid Religion
- 16: From Expansion to Stability, 479 - 405 B.C.
- 17: The War of the Two Brothers
- 18: Persian Gold
- 19: City and Countryside
- 20: Women in the Persian Empire
- 21: Artaxerxes II - The Longest-Ruling King
- 22: Persia and Macedon, 359 - 333 B.C.
- 23: The End of an Empire, 333 - 323 B.C.
- 24: Legacies of the Persian Empire
Taught by
John W. I. Lee
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