New Book: A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire
About ten years after the initial proposal the Companion to the Achaemenid Empire has been published! This two-volume, 110-chapter companion covers all aspects of the Achaemenid empire. Whereas previous surveys have been written by a single author, this book is the product of 92 researchers including Elspeth Dusinberre, Bruno Jacobs, Amélie Kuhrt, Robert Rollinger, David Stronach, and Caroline Waerzeggers. Bringing such a project to completion during a period of rapid change in publishing, a pandemic, and a turbulent situation in several rich countries was no small task for the organizers. The price is very appropriate for a European vision of the Achaemenids: 365 Euros. In 2015, there were plans for a cheaper softcover edition printed in thousands of copies, but those plans may have changed.
My chapter is the first comprehensive history of research on the Achaemenids in western Europe. With my co-author, we covered research in English, French, German, and Italian by chronological development, by country, and by themes such as numismatics.
There is a complete list of chapters and authors on Wiley’s Online Library.
This project is bittersweet because the Lie is becoming strong in Gandara and Ionia is on fire. I completed my chapter in 2015 and last revised it in December 2019, and I am not sure what the printed version of the chapter will look like. In a few months, I have gone from having most of my research in press to having almost nothing in press. But getting any version of such a project out is a great deed for the editors and their assistants.
Jacobs, Bruno / Rollinger, Robert (eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Two volumes. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World No. 2 (John Wiley & Sons, 2021) ISBN-13 ISBN: 978-1-119-17428-8 Wiley (with publisher’s description) – Wiley VCH – Bookfinder
List of Authors (Because You Know I Love Lists)
- Agut-Labordère, Damien
- Almagor, Eran
- Álvarez-Mon, Javier
- Basello, Gian Pietro
- Bichler, Reinhold
- Binder, Carsten
- Boteva-Boyanova, Dilyana
- Boucharlat, Rémy
- Callieri, Pierfrancesco
- Cannavò, Anna
- Dandamayev, Muhammad †
- Daryaee, Touraj
- Degen, Julian
- Dusinberre, Elspeth R.M.
- Elayi, Josette
- Fink, Sebastian
- Garrison, Mark B.
- Glassner, Jean-Jacques
- Graf, David F.
- Gruen, Erich S.
- Gufler, Birgit
- Gzella, Holger
- Hackl, Johannes
- Hajnal, Ivo
- Hassan, Christopher
- Hausleiter, Arnulf
- Heeßel, Nils P.
- Heinsch, Sandra
- Heller, André
- Henkelman, Wouter F.M.
- Hoernes, Matthias
- Hollman, Meredith Elliott
- Hutter, Manfred
- Jacobs, Bruno
- de Jong, Albert
- Jursa, Michael
- Kaelin, Oskar
- Kaptan, Deniz
- Kellens, Jean
- Kleber, Kristin
- Knauss, Florian S.
- Kofler, Wolfgang
- Konijnendijk, Roel
- Kratz, Reinhard G.
- Kuhrt, Amélie
- Kuntner, Walter
- Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
- Lohwasser, Angelika
- Luther, Andreas
- Madreiter, Irene
- Manning, Sean
- Marek, Christian
- Mehl, Andreas
- Meier, Mischa
- Messerschmidt, Wolfgang
- Miller, Margaret
- Mousavi, Ali
- Müller, Sabine
- Nagel, Alexander
- Nawotka, Krzysztof
- Niesiołowski-Spanò, Łukasz
- Nunn, Astrid
- Paspalas, Stavros A.
- Pirngruber, Reinhard
- Potts, Daniel T.
- Quack, Joachim F.
- Rapin, Claude
- Rehm, Ellen
- Rollinger, Robert
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Rossi, Adriano V.
- Ruffing, Kai
- Salvini, Mirjo
- Schmitt, Rüdiger
- Schnegg, Kordula
- Schwinghammer, Gundula
- Silke Knippschild
- Stark, Sören
- Steele, John M.
- Stolper, Matthew W.
- Stronach, David
- Stronk, Jan P.
- Tavernier, Jan
- Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.
- Tuplin, Christopher
- Vittmann, Günter
- Waerzeggers, Caroline
- Wasmuth, Melanie
- Wiesehöfer, Josef
- Wright, Jacob L.
- Wunsch, Cornelia
- Zahrnt, Michael
Edit 2021-08-09: Added link to Wiley Online Library w/ list of chapters
