The Heritage of Persia

by Frye, Richard N.

• ISBN13: 9781568590080
• ISBN10: 1568590083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Mazda Pub

Table of Contents

Introduction
Land Of Contrasts
Introduction to things general and specific	p. 1
The geographical background of history	p. 7
People change and people remain	p. 10
Iranian Traditions
The Aryan background	p. 17
Zoroaster and his message	p. 28
Sagas of the East	p. 35
Iran and Turan	p. 42
Social structure	p. 53
Iran and the west
The heritage of the ages	p. 62
Upstart dynasts	p. 75
The rise of Persis	p. 85
The crisis of empire	p. 94
The one world of the Achamenids. The court and bureaucracy	p. 102
Economic life	p. 119
Religion under the later Achamenids	p. 124
The fall of the Achamenids	p. 129
L'Iran Exterieur
Alexander the Great and his legacy	p. 143
Seleucid centralism	p. 149
The Hellenistic heritage	p. 161
The extended cultural area	p. 173
The Graeco-Bactrians	p. 182
Gandhara and Western influences	p. 189
The Adaptable Arsacids
A forgotten dynasty	p. 199
Origins	p. 201
The road westwards	p. 205
Parthia and Rome	p. 208
The Government and bureaucracy of the empire	p. 212
Literature and culture	p. 218
Foundations of Zoroastrianism	p. 220
The Kushans and the East	p. 223
The traditions of Persis	p. 226
Heirs of the Achaemenids
Ardashir and the cycle of history	p. 236
The imperialism of Shapur	p. 241
Heresies and the church	p. 248
The glory that was Iran	p. 254
The Persian Conquest of Islam
Disintegration of the old order	p. 268
Islam versus Iran	p. 274
Central Asian particularism	p. 279
Orthodoxy in Fars	p. 283
The new Persian renaissance	p. 286
Maps	p. 293
Notes to Maps	p. 296
Appendices	p. 298
Bibliography	p. 301
Index	p. 311
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