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Egyptian Murray, Margaret A.: The Splendor that was Egypt, revised edition (Mineola: Dover Publications, Inc., 2004) Hellene
Homer: Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald (New York: Doubleday, 1974) The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, edited by Paul Cartledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Indian Basham, A. L.: The Wonder that was India, 3rd revised edition (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1968) Judean
Moreen, Vera Basch: In Queen Esthers Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)
Makedonian
Bosworth, A. B.: Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) Bosworth, A. B.: Alexander and the East (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) Green, Peter: Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) Heckel, Waldemar: The Marshalls of Alexanders Empire (New York: Routledge, 1992) Mazdean
Boyce, Mary: A History of Zoroastrianism, Vols. 1 and 2 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975, 1982, 1989) Clark, Peter: Zoroastrianism: An Introduction to an Ancient Faith (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1998)
Jackson, William A. V.: Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran (London: The MacMillan Company, 1898, 1901)
Mehr, Farhang: The Zoroastrian Tradition: An Introduction to the Ancient Wisdom of Zarathushtra (Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2003)
Persian
Briant, Pierre: From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, translated by Peter T. Daniels (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002) Brosius, Maria: Women in Ancient Persia: 559-331 BC (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) Dandamaev, M. A.: A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire, translated by W. J. Vogelsang (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989) Dandamaev, Muhammad A. and Lukoniv, Vladimir: The Cultural and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran, English edition by Philip L. Kohl with the assistance of D. J. Dadson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Eddy, Samuel K.: The King is Dead (Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1961) Ferdowsi Toosi, Hakim Abol-Ghasem: Shâhnâmeh: The Persian Book of Kings, translated by Dick Davis (New York: Viking, 2006) Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia, edited by John E. Curtis and Nigel Tallis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) Hallock, Richard T.: Persepolis Fortification Tablets (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969) Highlights of Persian Art, edited by Richard Ettinghausen and Ehsan Yarshater (Boulder: Westview Press, 1979) The Splendour of Iran: Ancient Times, edited by N. Pourjavady, Vol. 1, edited by A. Sh. Shahbazi (London: Booth-Clibborn Editions Limited, 2001)
