The specialized bibliography is wide-ranging. References to specific problems addressed in the text are included in the endnotes for each chapter. Selected examples of illustrative works cited here are primarily in English.
Internet resources
Achemenet: http://www.achemenet.com/
Encyclopaedia Iranica: http://www.iranicaonline.org/
Livius: http://www.livius.org/persia.html
Achaemenid History and Historiography
Achaemenid History Series, multiple volumes with different editors, published by Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden
L. Allen, Persian Empire, 2005
J. Álvarez-Mon and M. Garrison (eds.), Elam and Persia, 2011
P. Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, translated by P. Daniels, 2002
P. Briant, W. Henkelman, and M. Stolper, L’archive des Fortifications de Persépolis. État des questions et perspectives de recherches, 2008
M. Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, 2006
M. Brosius, Women in Ancient Persia (559–331 B.C.), 1996
J. M. Cook, The Persian Empire, 1983
J. Curtis and St. John Simpson (eds.), The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art, and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East, 2010
J. Curtis and N. Tallis (eds.), Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia, 2005
M. Dandamaev, A Political History of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, translated by W. J. Vogelsang, 1989
E. Dusinberre, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, 2013
K. Farroukh, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War, 2007
L. Fried, The Priest and the Great King: Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire, 2004
R. Frye, The History of Ancient Iran, 1984
T. Harrison, Writing Ancient Persia, 2011
K. Hoglund, Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine and the Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah, 1992
B. Jacobs and R. Rollinger (eds.), Der Achämenidenhof/The Achaemenid Court, 2010
A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period, 2007
A. T. Olmstead, History of the Persian Empire, 1948
S. Ruzcka, Trouble in the West: Egypt and the Persian Empire 525–332 BCE, 2012
C. Tuplin, “The Administration of the Achaemenid Empire, in Coinge and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires, ed. I Carradice, 1987, 119–66
W. J. Vogelsang, The Rise and Organisation of the Achaemenid Persian Empire: The Eastern Iranian Evidence, 1992
J. Wiesehöfer, Ancient Persia, translated by A. Azodi, 1996
E. Yamauchi, Persia and the Bible, 1990
Art, Archaeology, Culture, and Religion
J. Álvarez-Mon, The Arj
n Tomb: At the Crossroads of the Elamite and Persian Empires, 2010
E. Bridges, E. Hall, and P. J. Rhodes (eds.), Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium, 2007
A. DeJong, Traditions of the Magi: Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin Literature, 1997
M. Garrison, “The Heroic Encounter in the Visual Arts of Ancient Iraq and Iran c. 1000–500 B.C.,” in The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography, ed. D. B. Counts and B. Arnold, 2010, 151–74
M. Garrison, “Visual Representation of the Divine and the Numinous in Early Achaemenid Iran: Old Problems, New Directions,” Iconography of Deities and Demons, University of Zurich, electronic pre-publication available athttp://www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch/idd/prepublications/e_idd_iran.pdf
M. Garrison and M. Root, Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume 1, Images of Heroic Encounter, 2001
W. Henkelman, The Other Gods Who Are: Studies on Elamite-Iranian Acculturation Based on the Persepolis Fortification Texts, 2008
B. Lincoln, “Happiness for Mankind”: Achaemenian Religion and the Imperial Project, 2012
W. Malandra, An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion: Readings from the Avesta and Achaemenid Incriptions, 1983
P. de Miroschedji, “Susa and the Highlands: Major Trends in the History of Elamite Civilization,” in Yeki bud, yeki nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner, ed. N. Miller and K. Abdi, 2003, 17–38
A. Mousavi, Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder, 2012
M. Root, The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art, 1979
E. Schmidt, Persepolis I: Structures, Reliefs, Inscriptions, 1953
E. Schmidt, Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries, 1957
E. Schmidt, Persepolis III: The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments, 1970
P. O. Skjærvø, “The Achamenids and the Avesta,” in Birth of the Persian Empire, eds. V Curtis and S. Stewart, 2005, 52–84
D. Stronach, Pasargadae, 1978
C. Tuplin (ed.), Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interaction with(in) the Achaemenid Empire, 2007
M. L. West, The Hymns of Zoroaster: A New Translation of the Most Ancient Sacred Texts of Iran, 2010
Persian Invasions of Greece, Persian-Greek Relations, Alexander and Persia
A. B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great, 1988
P. Briant, Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction, translated by A. Kuhrt, 2010
A. R. Burn, Persia and the Greeks, 1984
G. Cawkwell, The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia, 2005
T. Harrison (ed.), Greeks and Barbarians, 2002
W. Heckel, The Conquests of Alexander the Great, 2008
C. Hignett, Xerxes’ Invasion of Greece, 1963
P. Krentz, The Battle of Marathon, 2010
D. Lewis, Sparta and Persia, 1977
M. Miller, Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century B.C.: A Study in Cultural Receptivity, 1997
H. Wallinga, Xerxes’ Great Adventure: The Naval Perspective, 2005