Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0002
M. Canepa
{"title":"Building the First Persian Empire","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the construction of the Achaemenid empire and its royal residence cities including Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana and Babylon. It also explores the role of rock art and ritual in shaping Persian topographies of power.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116813538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0017
M. Canepa
{"title":"Earthly Paradises","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 17 investigates the development of the Iranian institutions of estates and gardens. It examines the continuities and changes in the development of the paradise as well its ideological role from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian period.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116944601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0013
M. Canepa
{"title":"Reshaping Iran’s Past and Building Its Future","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 13 agues that the Sasanians created a new vision of the Iranian past and their central role in it by building a new sacred topography. It argues that Avestan sites of memory emerged at locales with no previous Achaemenid monumental activity but which benefited from beautiful and dramatic natural features.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124538427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0015
M. Canepa
{"title":"The Seleucid and Arsacid Transformations of Iranian Palatial Architecture","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 15 argues that the Seleucids selectively appropriated the Persian palatial traditions to subsume and supersede the Achaemenid legacy. It argues that the Seleucids also used select Achaemenid palaces as anti-monuments, particularly, Susa. The chapter establishes that contours of Seleucid palatial architecture in Iran from the available evidence. It then tracks how the Arsacids engaged the Seleucid palatial tradition before creating new architecture forms with lasting effects on the Iranian. Namely, domed and vaulted architecture.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129235000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0016
M. Canepa
{"title":"The Palace of the Lord of the Sevenfold World","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/CALIFORNIA/9780520290037.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 16 offered a portal into a different reality or perceptual plane and, for those privileged, a means to inhabit, at least momentarily, this hyperreality. That is not to say that everyone who beheld such spaces need be convinced or overawed. Indeed, the casual observer or outsider might only see a crowd milling around a large building. Yet if one were allowed- or physically, cognitively and ritually compelled- to enter into the implied realities of the microcosm of the ayvān, you as viewer or ritual participant were afforded, or perhaps confronted with, depending on the degree to which one identified with the regime, a stunning view of the cosmos and the Iranian king’s place within it.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123545566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0005
M. Canepa
{"title":"Rival Visions and New Royal Identities in Post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 examines post-Achaemenid Anatolia and the Caucasus. It explore how the kingdoms of founded or ruled by dynasts who traced their roots to Persian satrapal houses navigated between the Hellenistic and Iranian worlds.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130646979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iranian ExpansePub Date : 2018-06-08DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0011
M. Canepa
{"title":"Dynastic Sanctuaries","authors":"M. Canepa","doi":"10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520290037.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 11 argues that the post-Seleucid dynasties appropriated the Seleucid traditions of dynastic cult and dynastic eras as a new Iranian royal tradition. Shifting over the centuries with the rise of new empires and cultural and regional influences, such sanctuaries nevertheless played a central role in defining these dynasties’ royal identity and consolidating their hold over provincial or even transregional Iranian legacies.","PeriodicalId":178322,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Expanse","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124363170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}