Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Military activity played a determinative role in the history of the Achaemenid empire.This chapter considers some ideological dimensions of this fact.It does so through a separate examination of Persian and Greek representations of the role of war and warriors in the imperial setting.The place of war in the elite Persian psyche does remain rather elusive, but the Persian and Greek data-sets, radically different in content and character, are not far apart in their depiction of an ideological environment in which military values played a larger role than is sometimes acknowledged but were less fundamental than one might have expected.What is sometimes called the pax Achaemenica is certainly an artificial construct, but nothing compels us to replace it with the vision of a truly militarist society.
Source: Electrum
Author: Christopher Tuplin
Institution: University of Liverpool
Language: English
Topic: Ancient Near East History
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2789289489