Administration

The scholarship available on the Administartion of the Ancient Persian Empire.

General

  • Briant, P., From Cyrus to Alexander: a history of the Persian Empire, Winona Lake IN, 2002, 357-514.
  • Waters, M.W., Ancient Persia: a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE, New York, 2014, 92-113 & 134-156.
  • Wiesehofer, J. & Azodi, A., Ancient Persia: from 550 BC to 650 AD, London, 2001, 56-65 & 89-101.

Further Reading

  • Briant, P., ‘Table du roi. Tribut et rédistribution chez les Achéménides’ in Le Tribut dans l’Empire Perse: actes de la Table ronde de Paris, 12-13 Décembre 1986, Paris, 1989, 35-44.
  • Brosius, M., ‘Reconstructing an archive: account and journal texts from Persepolis’ in Ancient archives and archival traditions: concepts of record-keeping in the ancient world, Oxford, 2003, 264-283.
  • Graf, D., ‘Persian royal road system’ in Achaemenid history: 8: Continuity and change : proceedings of the last Achaemenid History Workshop April 6-8, 1990 – Ann Arbor, Michigan, Leiden, 1994, 167-189.
  • Hallock, R.T., ‘The evidence of the Persepolis tablets’ in The Cambridge history of Iran: Vol. 2: The Median and Achaemenian period, Cambridge, 1985.
  • Henkelma, W., ‘Administrative Realities. The Persepolis Archives and the Archaeology of the Achaemenid Heartland’ in The Oxford handbook of ancient Iran, Oxford, 2013.
  • Jacobs, B., ‘Achaemenid satrapies’ in Encyclopaedia Iranica, London, 2011.
  • Jursa, M., ‘Taxation and service-obligations in Babylonia and the evidence for Darius’ tax-reform’ in Herodot und das Persische Weltreich =: Herodotus and the Persian Empire : Akten des 3. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema “Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassischer und altorientalischer Überlieferungen,” Innsbruck, 24.-28. November 2008, Wiesbaden, 2011.
  • Kuhrt, A., ‘Earth and water’ in Achaemenid history: 3: Method and theory : proceedings of the London 1985 Achaemenid History Workshop, Leiden, 1988, 87-99.
  • Lewis, D.M., ‘The King’s table’ in Achaemenid history: 2: The Greek sources : proceedings of the Groningen 1984 Achaemenid History Workshop, Leiden, 1987, 79-87.
  • Lewis, D.M., ‘The Persepolis fortification texts’ in Achaemenid history: 4: Centre and periphery : proceedings of the Groningen 1986 Achaemenid History Workshop, Leiden, 1990, 1-6.
  • Lewis, D.M., ‘The Persepolis tablets: speech, seal and script’ in Literacy and power in the ancient world, Cambridge, 1994, 17-32.
  • Sancisi-Weerdenburg, H., ‘Gifts in the Persian empire’ in Le Tribut dans l’Empire Perse: actes de la Table ronde de Paris, 12-13 Décembre 1986, Paris, 1989, 129-146.
  • Tuplin, C.J., ‘Administration of the Persian Empire’ in Coinage and administration in the Athenian and Persian empires: the Ninth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History, Oxford, 1987, 109-166.
  • Tuplin, C.J., ‘Xenophon and the garrisons of the Achaemenid Empire’ in Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran 20, 1987, 167-245.
  • Tuplin, C.J., ‘The seasonal migration of Achaemenid kings’ in Achaemenid history: essays in memory of David M. Lewis, 11: Studies in Persian history, Leiden, 1998, 63-114.
  • Tuplin, C.J., ‘Managing the World: Herodotus on Persian imperial administration’ in Herodot und das Persische Weltreich =: Herodotus and the Persian Empire : Akten des 3. Internationalen Kolloquiums zum Thema “Vorderasien im Spannungsfeld klassischer und altorientalischer Überlieferungen,” Innsbruck, 24.-28. November 2008, Wiesbaden, 2011.
  • Tuplin, C.J., ‘The justice of Darius’ in Assessing Biblical and classical sources for the reconstruction of Persian influence, history, and culture, Wiesbaden, 2015.