The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE
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The Iranian expanse : transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE
（The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature）
University of California Press, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-475) and index
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The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment-everything from royal cities and paradise gardens, to hunting enclosures and fire temples-to form and contest Iranian cultural memory, royal identity, and sacred cosmologies over a thousand years of history. Although scholars have often noted startling continuities between the traditions of the Achaemenids and the art and architecture of medieval or Early Modern Islam, the tumultuous millennium between Alexander and Islam has routinely been downplayed or omitted. The Iranian Expanse delves into this fascinating period, examining royal culture and identity as something built and shaped by strategic changes to architectonic and urban spaces and the landscape of Western Asia. Canepa shows how the Seleucids, Arsacids, and Sasanians played a transformative role in developing a new Iranian royal culture that deeply influenced not only early Islam, but also the wider Persianate world of the Il-Khans, Safavids, Timurids, and Mughals.
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
1 Introduction: Conceptualizing Iran and Building Iranian Empires
PART ONE Ordering the Earth
2 Building the First Persian Empire
3 The Destruction of Achaemenid Persia and the Creation of Seleucid Iran
4 The Rise of the Arsacids and a New Iranian Topography of Power
5 Rival Visions and New Royal Identities in Post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus
6 Sasanian Rupture and Renovation
PART TWO Sacred Spaces
7 Persian Religion and Achaemenid Sacred Spaces
8 The Seleucid Transformation of Iranian Sacred Spaces
9 Ancient Sacred Landscapes and Memories of Persian Religion in Anatolia and the Caucasus
PART THREE Landscapes of Time and Memory
10 Iranian Funerary Landscapes
11 Dynastic Sanctuaries
12 Sasanian Memory and the Persian Monumental and Ritual Legacy
13 Reshaping Iran's Past and Building Its Future
PART FOUR Palace and Paradise
14 Persian Palatial Cosmologies
15 The Seleucid and Arsacid Transformations of Iranian Palatial Architecture
16 The Palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World
17 Earthly Paradises
Epilogue
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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