Against Hellenocentrism
Peter Green: Persia v. the West, 8 August 2013
Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire, 525-332 BC
by Stephen Ruzicka.
Oxford, 311 pp., £45, April 2012,978 0 19 976662 8 Show More
by Stephen Ruzicka.
Oxford, 311 pp., £45, April 2012,
King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
Edinburgh, 258 pp., £24.99, January 2013,978 0 7486 4125 3 Show More
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
Edinburgh, 258 pp., £24.99, January 2013,
“... in which the Greeks and Alexander, though disruptive, play an essentially peripheral role. Stephen Ruzicka sets out to correct this in Trouble in the West, and he does so with formidable scholarship, a talent for extracting the maximum possible amount from evidence often as obscure as it is patchy, and a commendably objective approach to the sort ... ”
