Women in Ancient Persia, 559–331 BC

Questia. Book by Maria Brosius; Clarendon Press,1998, 260 pgs. This book discusses Greek attitudes towards the royal women of the Achaemenid court ( 559-331 BC). It also attempts to look at the position of royal and non-royal women from a Near Eastern view point by examining the evidence of the Fortification texts from Persepolis and Neo-Babylonian texts.

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