Wiesehöfer, Josef. 2022. Iran – Zentralasien – Mittelmeer Gesammelte Schriften, Teil I: Studien zur Geschichte der Achaimeniden. (Philippika – Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen). (Ed.) Robert Rollinger & Kai Ruffing. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Josef Wiesehöfer is one of the leading German-speaking historians of ancient history and is a world-renowned scholar, who has made outstanding achievements in his fields of research. In keeping with the diversity of his research interests, especially in the field of Iran and the Iranian Great Empires as well as the history of scholarship of the field, four thematically volumes of his “Kleine Schriften” are planned. These Kleine Schriften are intended to provide an insight into his scholarly work and contain a selection of the 250 scholarly articles Wiesehöfer has published to date in over 45 years of research.
Volume 1, edited by Robert Rollinger and Kai Ruffing, focuses on the history of the Achaimenid Empire and brings together 14 essays, some of which were published in more remote places. The contributions are indexed and Josef Wiesehöfer himself has added a short commentary on the progress of research. The following volumes will be devoted to Hellenism and the Arsacids, the Sasanian and finally the history of scholarship of the field.
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- Achaemenid Rule and its Impact on Yehud
- Bergvölker im antiken Nahen Osten: Fremdwahrnehmung und Eigeninteresse
- Ctesias, the Achaemenid Court, and the History of the Greek Novel
- „Das Wasser des Königs“: Wohltat, paradiesischer Lebensspender und herrscherlicher Genuss
- Die Ermordung des Xerxes: Abrechnung mit einem Despoten oder eigentlicher Beginn einer Herrschaft?
- Ein König erschließt und imaginiert sein Imperium: Persische Reichsordnung und persische Reichsbilder zur Zeit Dareios’ I. (522–486 v.Chr.)
- Die ‚Freunde‘ und ‚Wohltäter‘ des Großkönigs
- Greeks and Persians
- Günstlinge und Privilegien am Achaimenidenhof
- Herodot und Zypern
- Law and Religion in Achaemenid Iran
- Nouruz in Persepolis? Eine Residenz, das Neujahrsfest und eine Theorie
- ‚Reichsgesetz‘ oder ‚Einzelfallgerechtigkeit‘? Bemerkungen zu P. Freis These von der achaimenidischen ‚Reichsautorisation‘
- The Medes and the Idea of the Succession of Empires in Antiquity