Great Kings, Strong Kings, Kings of the Four Quarters
Peter Green: The Achaemenids, 7 May 2015
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE
by Matt Waters.
Cambridge, 252 pp., £19.99, January 2014,978 0 521 25369 7 Show More
by Matt Waters.
Cambridge, 252 pp., £19.99, January 2014,
“... as the Achaemenid dynasty. That the prize Darius won was worth fighting for hardly needs saying. Herodotus, who spent the first half of his Histories exploring the many nations under Achaemenid rule, tells us that the annual tribute they paid was the equivalent of 14,560 talents; since the bulk of the sum was paid in gold and silver, with the talent set at a ... ”