Elective course. Imperial Rule in the Achaemenid Empire 2900-HAMC-EL-AE-KZ
This course will explore the key aspects of imperial rule in the Achaemenid Empire and its influence on local elites. It will begin with an overview of Achaemenid history, focusing specifically on the ideology of imperial rule and the concept of imperial space. The course will then examine Persian governance in selected regions—Egypt, the southern Levant, and Asia Minor. The final sessions will address the role of Persian-style feasts and their impact on local elites across the empire.
Throughout the course, participants will be encouraged to critically engage with how modern historians reconstruct the history of the Persian Empire, while also considering the limitations of written and iconographic sources.
The course will combine lectures and source-based discussions. Before some classes participants will be provided with pre-reading materials, which will serve as the basis for in-class discussions.
Tryb prowadzenia
Założenia (opisowo)
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
By the end of the course, participants will be familiar with the key aspects of Achaemenid imperial rule, understand how it functioned in different regions of the Empire, and appreciate its impact on the history of those regions.
Kryteria oceniania
Final written test.
No more than 3 absences in the semester are allowed. Absences 2 and 3 may result in additional assignments. A participant who is more than 15 minutes late will be considered absent.
Literatura
D. Agut- Labordère, The Satrapies of the Persian Empire in Egypt In: The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Edited by Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller, and D. T. Potts, Oxford 2023, 737-783.
P. Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, Winona Lake 2002.
H. P. Colburn, Connectivity and Communication in the Achaemenid Empire, “Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient” 56 (2013), 29-52.
H. P. Colburn, The Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt, Edinburgh 2021.
E. Elsinberre, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, Cambridge 2013.
A. Fitzpatrick-McKinley, Empire, Power and Indigenous Elites: A Case Study of the Nehemiah Memoir, Leiden 2015.
L. L. Grabbe, Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah, London 2004.
A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period, London – New York 2010.
O. Lipschits, M. Oeming (eds.), Judah and Judeans in the Persian Period, Winona Lake 2016.
R. Rollinger, B. Jacobs (eds.), A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Hoboken 2021.
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