Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World

$65.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole A fascinating study of Persia’s interactions and exchanges of influence with ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks as a vastly wealthy and powerful rival and often as an existential threat. When the…