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    Jun 08, 2021 6 minutes

    Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire Past Approaches, Future Prospects

    By Dr. Sean Manning

    ISBN: 978-3515127752

    Franz Steiner Verlag (2021) - €74.00

    www.steiner-verlag.de

    Sean Manning is on a mission. He has spent several years immersed in the military history of the Achaemenid Empire and this excellent, major contribution to the literature of ancient warfare is based on his doctoral thesis. He started out (the journey is well documented on his website ) with a feeling that "the scholarship on Achaemenid armies in English was repetitive and fell apart at the first gentle question." His conclusion from a comprehensive review of the research and more general studies published over the past 120 years is that most scholars have been overdependent on classical literature as their main source. He traces this back to the writings of Eduard Meyer (, 1902) and observes a persistent tendency to undervalue or ignore the wealth of indigenous, non-literary sources. Where, hitherto, Persian warfare has been

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