Research Catalog

Title

Persia : ancient Iran and the classical world / edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole.

Publication

• Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2022]
• ©2022

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Spier, Jeffrey
• Potts, Timothy F.
• Cole, Sara E.
• J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Description

xiii, 418 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plans; 30 cm

Summary

"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from April 6, 2022, to August 8, 2022"--

Uniform Title

Persia (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Subject

• To 640
• Classical antiquities > Exhibitions
• Civilization, Classical > Exhibitions
• Antiquities
• Civilization
• Civilization, Classical
• Classical antiquities
• International relations
• Iran > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Iran > Civilization > To 640 > Exhibitions
• Iran > Relations > Greece > Exhibitions
• Greece > Relations > Iran > Exhibitions
• Iran > Relations > Rome > Exhibitions
• Rome > Relations > Iran > Exhibitions
• Greece
• Iran
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index.

Contents

The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC -- Map -- Time Line of Achaemenid Kings -- Persia Before the Persians / Timothy Potts -- Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran: Elamites, Medes, and Persians / Wouter F. M. Henkelman -- Kingship in the Achaemenid Empire / Robert Rollinger -- Visual Arts of Collective Imperial Identity: from Persepolis to the Mediterranean / Margaret Cool Root -- The Greco-Persian Wars: Image, Effect, and Afterlife / Margaret C. Miller -- Greeks, Lydians, Carians, and Lycians in Achaemenid Asia Minor / Jeffrey Spier -- Persia in Cyprus / Antigoni Zournatzi -- The Achaemenid Empire: Catalogue 1-78 -- The Parthian Empire, ca. 247 BC-AD 224 -- Map -- Time Line of Seleucid and Arsacid Kings and Roman Emperors -- Alexander the Great and the Seleucids: Iran in the Hellenistic Period (ca. 330-150 BC) / Rolf Strootman -- The Parthian Empire / Jake Nabel -- Parthia and the Geography of Empire / Stefan R. Hauser -- In Search of Parthian Art: Arsacid Influence in the Representational Arts of the Parthian Empire / Lucinda Dirven -- Religion in the Parthian Empire / Albert de Jong -- Greek in Asia: Understanding Hellenism in Susa and Seleucia on the Tigris / Vito Messina and Miguel John Versluys -- The Parthian Empire: Catalogue 79-144 -- The Sasanian Empire: AD 224-561 -- Map -- Time Line of Sasanian Kings and Roman and Byzantine Emperors -- The Sasanian Empire / M. Rahim Shayegan -- The Royal Image in Ancient Persia / Matthew P. Canepa -- Persia and Rome: the Historical and Ideological Gaze / Touraj Daryaee -- Epilogue: the End of Antiquity in Iran and the Postclassical Inheritance / Hugh Kennedy -- The Sasanian Empire: Catalogue 145-209.

Call Number

JFF 22-448

ISBN

• 9781606066805
• 1606066803

LCCN

• 2021047183
• 40031092489

OCLC

• 1266642494
• 1266642494

Title

Persia : ancient Iran and the classical world / edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole.

Publisher

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index.

Chronological Term

To 640

Added Author

Spier, Jeffrey, editor.

Potts, Timothy F., editor.

Cole, Sara E., editor.

J. Paul Getty Museum, host institution, issuing body.

Other Standard Identifier

40031092489

Research Call Number

JFF 22-448