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"The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley. First rediscovered in 1851, the palace of Darius was partly excavated over the next century. But it was only field research between 1969 and 1979 by the noted French archaeologist Jean Perrot which revealed the site's full dimension and complexity. Its bull-headed capitals, enamel friezes of richly-clad archers holding spears, figures of noble lions and winged monsters, introduced a new iconography into the ancient Persian world. The discovery and excavation of the palace, which this book records, thus casts a new light on the beginnings of the Achaemenid period. Edited by the distinguished scholar of ancient Persia, John Curtis, the lavishly illustrated volume is a work of seminal importance for the understanding of ancient Persia, likely to be radically altered by Perrot's research and findings."--Publisher's website.
Palaces --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Art, Achaemenid. --- Palais --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Art achéménide --- Darius --- Susa (Extinct city) --- Iran --- Suse (Ville ancienne) --- History --- Histoire
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Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the centre of the royal Persian court and behaviours of ostentatious display rippled through the imperial provinces, whose elite classes emulated luxury objects in lesser materials. But luxury is contrastingly depicted through Athenian eyes ? within the philosophical context of early democratic codes and the historical context of the Greco-Persian Wars, which suddenly and spectacularly brought eastern luxuries into the imagination of the Athenian populace for the first time. While Greek writers rejected luxury as eastern, despotic and corrupt, the Athenian elite adopted Persian luxuries in imaginative ways to signal status, distinction and prestige. Under the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great and its subsequent kingdoms, royal Achaemenid luxury culture would later be adopted and displayed by the Macedonian and local elite across the Greek and Middle Eastern worlds: behaviours of ostentatious display were a means to seek advantage in the new Hellenistic world order. Ultimately, this publication demonstrates how competing political spins woven around 2,500 years ago still continue to shape modern perceptions of luxury today.
Luxe --- Antiquités grecques. --- Antiquités achéménides. --- Art achéménide. --- Art antique --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Luxuries --- British Museum --- Iran --- Greece --- Antiquities --- Civilization --- Exhibitions
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Animals in art --- Art, Sassanid --- Art, Achaemenid --- Animaux dans l'art --- Art sassanide --- Art achéménide --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Expositions --- Expositions
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Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C. --- Art, Achaemenid --- Architecture, Ancient --- Achéménides --- Art achéménide --- Architecture antique --- Turkey --- Asie Mineure --- History --- Histoire --- Antiquities --- Congresses --- Achéménides --- Art achéménide --- Turkey - History - To 1453 - Congresses --- Turkey - Antiquities - Congresses
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