The present volume is a collection of articles published in English by Professor Pierre Briant of the Collège de France, in various forms over the past three decades.
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Alexander the Great and the Enlightenment: William Robertson (1721-1793), the Empire and the road to India -- Alexander and the Persian Empire, between "decline" and "renovation," history and historiography -- The theme of "Persian decadence" in eighteenth-century European historiography: remarks on the genesis of a myth -- Grote on Alexander the Great -- Milestones in the development of Achaemenid historiography in the era of Ernst Herzfeld -- Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias J. Bickerman and the "Hellenization of Asia": from Alexander the Great to World War II -- Cyrus the Great -- The empire of Darius III in perspective -- The Seleucid kingdom, the Achaemenid empire and the history of the Near-East in the first millennium B.C. -- The Achaemenid empire -- From the Indus to the Mediterranean: the administrative organization and logistics of the great roads of the Achaemenid empire -- Susa and Elam in the Achaemenid empire -- New trends in Achaemenid history -- Persia and Persians.