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catching details and scenes long vanished

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World ornament illuminatorsEdited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole A fascinating study of Persias interactions and exchanges of influence with ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. The founding of the first Persian Empire by the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great in the sixth century BCE established one of the greatest world powers of antiquity. Extending from the borders of Greece to northern India, Persia was seen by the Greeks as a vastly wealthy and powerful