The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus’s foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond. Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the complex dossier of Elamo-Persian acculturation; the Mesopotamian antecedents of Cyrus’s edict and religious policy; Cyrus’s Baupol...

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The edited volume Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore re-contextualizes Cyrus’s foundational act and epoch in light of recent scholarship, while examining his later reception in antiquity and beyond. Among the many themes addressed in the volume are: the complex dossier of Elamo-Persian acculturation; the Mesopotamian antecedents of Cyrus’s edict and religious policy; Cyrus’s Baupolitik at Pasargadae, and the idiosyncratic genesis of Persian imperial art; the Babylonian exile, the Bible, and the First Return; Cyrus’s exalted but conflicted image in the later Greco-Roman world; his reception and programmatic function in genealogical constructs of the Hellenistic and Arsacid periods; and finally Cyrus’s conspicuous and enigmatic evanescence in the Sasanian and Muslim traditions.

The sum of these wide-ranging contributions assembled in one volume, as well as a new critical edition and English translation of the Cyrus Cylinder, allow for a more adequate evaluation of Cyrus’s impact on his own age, as well as his imprint on posterity.

Preface (Acknowledgments)
Introduction [M. Rahim Shayegan]
The Text of the Cyrus Cylinder [Hanspeter Schaudig]
Cyrus Rising: Reflections on Word Choice, Ancient and Modern [Matt Waters]
Cyrus, Anshan, and Assyria [David Stronach]
The Magnanimous Heart of Cyrus: The Cyrus Cylinder and Its Literary Models [Hanspeter Schaudig]
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Preface (Acknowledgments)
Introduction [M. Rahim Shayegan]
The Text of the Cyrus Cylinder [Hanspeter Schaudig]
Cyrus Rising: Reflections on Word Choice, Ancient and Modern [Matt Waters]
Cyrus, Anshan, and Assyria [David Stronach]
The Magnanimous Heart of Cyrus: The Cyrus Cylinder and Its Literary Models [Hanspeter Schaudig]
“Ich bin ein Babylonier”: The Political-Religious Message of the Cyrus Cylinder [Beate Pongratz-Leisten]
Cyrus and Post-Collapse Yehud [William Schniedewind]
Contrasting Portrayals of the Achaemenid Monarchy in Isaiah and Zecharia [Marvin A. Sweeney]
Cyrus and Pasargadae: Forging an Empire—Fashioning “Paradise” [Rémy Boucharlat]
Cyrus the Great and Ancient Propaganda [Daniel Beckman]
Cyrus the Great: A Hero’s Tale [Maria Brosius]
Cyrus the Great and Roman Views of Ancient Iran [Jason M. Schlude]
The Shaping of Political Memory: Cyrus and the Achaemenids in the Royal Ideologies of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods [Marek Jan Olbrycht]
On Forgetting Cyrus and Remembering the Achaemenids in Late Antique Iran [Touraj Daryaee]
Traces of Poetic Traditions about Cyrus the Great and His Dynasty in the Šāhnāme of Ferdowsi and the Cyrus Cylinder [Olga M. Davidson]
Index
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