Cook, J. M. 1983.

The Persian Empire.

London: Schocken Books.

Account of Achaemenid Persia from its emergence through its defeat at the hands of the Macedonian army of Alexander; far more concise than Briant (2002).

Starr, C. 1973 and 1977. Greeks and Persians in the Fourth Century: A Study in Cultural Contacts before Alexander. Part I,

Iranica Antiqua

11, 39-99; Part II,

Iranica Antigua

12, 49-115.

Valuable examinations of the cultural relationships of the peoples facing one another across the Aegean Sea during the critical decades of the rise of Macedonia. (10-1) زينوفون

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