EAN: 9783515127752

ARMED FORCE IN THE TEISPID-ACHAEMENID EMPIRE - ...

The armies of Cyrus  Xerxes and Darius III are usually understood through the lens of classical
literature and stereotypes about the orient. Sean Manning proposes a new understanding based on
all kinds of evidence and the study of the ancient Near East. He examines the last century and
a half of research in its historical and ideological context. Three core chapters treat
Akkadian tablets  Aramaic documents  royal inscriptions  and artifacts as sources in their own
right  not compliments to Herodotus. The different perspectives of Iranian philologists 
Mesopotamian archaeologists and historians of ancient Greece are considered and addressed. A
series of case studies show that the Greek and Latin texts can be read in unfamiliar ways which
can survive stronger criticism than traditional interpretations. The king's troops were not
literary foils to show the virtues of Greek hoplites or Scythian horsemen  they were agents of
an early world empire which drew on long traditions and the latest innovations to gather money
soldiers  and workers and deploy them at the will of the king.

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