Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: The Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (Basic Books 2023) [IBR2026] (opens in new tab)

This is a history of ancient Persia. It is unlike other histories of Persia (not that there have been many). This history uses genuine, indigenous, ancient Persian sources to tell a very different story from the one we might be familiar with, the one moulded around ancient Greek accounts. This story is told by the […]