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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Ink stain on the bottom of the text block. Small shallow dent in the front panel of the dust jacket and board. Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a fresh approach to understanding the Achaemenid Empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual sources to demonstrate that the two-hundred-year Persian presence in this city had a profound impact on local social structures, revealing the region's successful absorption, both ideological and physical, into the Persian Empire. During this period, Sardis was a centre of burgeoning creativity and vitality, where a polyethnic elite devised a fresh culture - inspired by Iranian, Greek and local Lydian traditions - that drew on and legitimated imperial ideology. The non-elite absorbed and adapted multiple aspects of this culture to create a wholly different profile of what it meant to be Sardian. As well as successfully bringing together information on…
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- Title Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis
- Author Elspeth R. Dusinberre
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
- Date June 9, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780521810715 / 052181071X
- Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 9.8 x 7.6 x 1 in (24.89 x 19.30 x 2.54 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Achaemenid dynasty, Sardis (Extinct city) - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002073452
- Dewey Decimal Code 939.22
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Hardback. New. Sardis was the capital of Lydia. In the mid-sixth century, it was conquered by the Persians, and Lydia was annexed into the expanding Achaemenid Persian Empire. This book uses textual, archaeological and art historical information to explore the physical and ideological effects of this political transformation on local social structures.
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