The Heritage of Persia
豆瓣
Richard N. Frye
简介
The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most splendid, powerful and long lasting of the great historical cultures. But our knowledge of it is all too often confined to a few masterpieces of early Persian art and the Persians' role of Goliath to the Greeks' David. The Heritage of Persia is based on a firsthand study of the sources archaeological, documentary and linguistic and provides a scholarly, readable and absorbing account of 2,500 years of Persian history and culture.
contents
Part 1. Land Of Contrasts
Introduction to Things General and Specific.
The Geographical Background of History.
People change and people remain
Part 2. Iranian Traditions
The Aryan Background.
Zoroaster and his Message.
Sagas of the East.
Iran and Turan.
Social Structure.
Part 3. Iran and the West
The Heritage of the Ages.
Upstart Dynasts.
The Rise of Persis.
The Crisis of Empire.
The One World of the Achamenids. The Court and Bureaucracy.
Economic Life.
Religion Under the Later Achamenids.
The Fall of the Achamenids.
Part. 4. L’Iran Exterieur
Alexander the Great and His Legacy.
Seleucid Centralism.
The Hellenistic Heritage.
The Extended Cultural Area.
The Graeco-Bactrians.
Gandhara and Western Influences.
Part. 5. The Adaptable Arsacids
A Forgotten Dynasty.
Origins.
The Road Westwards.
Parthia and Rome.
The Government and Bureaucracy of the Empire.
Literature and Culture.
Foundations of Zoroastrianism.
The Kushans and the East.
The Traditions of Persis.
Part. 6. Heirs of the Achaemenids
Ardashir and the Cycle of History.
The Imperialism of Shapur.
Heresies and the Church.
The Glory that was Iran.
Part. 7. The Persian Conquest of Islam
Disintegration of the Old Order
Islam Versus Iran.
Central Asian Particularism.
Orthodoxy in Fars.
The new Persian Renaissance.
Maps.
Notes to Maps.
Appendices.
Bibliography.
Index.