ArtaA Compendium of the Achaemenid World
A scholarly, searchable encyclopaedia of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (Cyrus the Great to Alexander, 550–330 BCE): its people, places, peoples, institutions and ideas; the primary sources and their evaluation; the material record; and long-form thematic surveys. Primary sources are cited precisely; modern scholarship is represented honestly, with debate and uncertainty kept visible rather than smoothed away.
Survey essays
- Religion & the Lie: the Achaemenid religious worldA survey of Achaemenid religion: the worship of Ahura Mazdā and the ideology of Truth against the Lie; the Magi and their rites of fire, oath, and death; the toleration of subject gods; and the vexed question of the kings' relationship to Zoroaster.