Böcker av Elspeth R. M. (Associate Professor Dusinberre

This book offers a radical new approach to understanding the Achaemenid Persian Empire and imperialism more generally. Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre shows how the rulers of the Empire constructed a system flexible enough to provide for the needs of different peoples within the confines of a single imperial authority and highlights the variability in response.

Sardis was the capital of Lydia. In the mid-sixth century, it was conquered by the Persians, and Lydia was annexed into the expanding Achaemenid Persian Empire. This book uses textual, archaeological and art historical information to explore the physical and ideological effects of this political transformation on local social structures.