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Article: Es kundet Dareios der Konig ...: Vom Leben im persischen Grossreich.
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 1994
- Author:
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H. Koch's lavishly illustrated monograph aims to give a vivid picture of the life at the Persian court at Persepolis using the evidence of the Persepolis Fortification Texts (hereafter PFT), and by describing the major archaeological sites. Despite the grand scale on which the book has been published, it lacks the accuracy of a carefully researched study.
Three factors seem$to have shaped the author's thinking about the Persian Empire, which in turn have shaped the monograph: 1) a naive perception of Darius as a morally good king; 2) an apparent lack of familiarity with recent secondary literature; and 3) a western European approach to the PFT. Without any critical ...