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oapen-20.500.12657-258982021-11-10T08:08:59Z Xerxes and Babylonia Waerzeggers, Caroline Seire, Maarja Xerxes Babylonia Persia cuneiform texts ancient history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLA Ancient history: to c 500 CE In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes’ response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. It collects nine essays on the cuneiform text corpus dated to the period before, during and after the revolts. This material enables the authors to evaluate the nature of Xerxes’ policies in the sphere of society, science, religion, law, administration and economy against the long-term history of the region. The contributions are by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa, Karlheinz Kessler, Mathieu Ossendrijver, Reinhard Pirngruber, Malgorzata Sandowicz and Caroline Waerzeggers. 2019-06-27 11:41:02 2020-04-01T10:54:09Z 2020-04-01T10:54:09Z 2018 book 1004186 OCN: 1100489392 9789042936706 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25898 eng Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789042938097.pdf Peeters 79d3d252-599a-4863-a7d0-d8ca74a9c390 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9789042936706 European Research Council (ERC) 229 Leuven 682241 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access
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In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes’ response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. It collects nine essays on the cuneiform text corpus dated to the period before, during and after the revolts. This material enables the authors to evaluate the nature of Xerxes’ policies in the sphere of society, science, religion, law, administration and economy against the long-term history of the region. The contributions are by Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Johannes Hackl, Michael Jursa, Karlheinz Kessler, Mathieu Ossendrijver, Reinhard Pirngruber, Malgorzata Sandowicz and Caroline Waerzeggers.
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