The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period

Achaemenid Aegean Agesilaus Akkad Akkadian Alexander Alexander’s Amasis Amyrtaeus Anab Aramaic Aristagoras army Artaxerxes Artaxerxes III Asia Minor Assyrian Astyages Athenians Athens Babylon Babylonian barbarians Bardiya battle Briant brother called Cambyses campaign captured Carian command Croesus Ctesias Cyprus Cyrus Darius II Darius the king daughter death defeated Diodorus Siculus drawing Tessa Rickards Egypt Egyptian Elamite empire Evagoras father favour of Auramazda FGrH fight fleet force governor Greece Greek Harpagus Hellespont Hellespontine Phrygia Herodotus Histiaeus II’s inscription Ionians killed king proclaims king’s kingship Kuhrt Lacedaemonians land Lenfant Lydians Macedonian magus marched Mardonius Medes Median Megabyzus mercenaries Miletus Nabonidus Notes Old Persian palace Pasargadae Persepolis Persian king Pharnabazus Phoenician Polycrates rebels references reign revolt royal ruler sailed Salamis Sardis satrap Scythians sent ships Smerdis soldiers Spartan story suggests surrender Susa temple territory Thrace throne Tissaphernes took triremes victory Xenophon Xerxes