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Achaemenid Sources

Briant, Pierre. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002. ISBN 1575060310

Brosius, Maria. Women in Ancient Persia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 198152558

Cameron, George Glenn. Persepolis Treasury Tablets. University of Chicago Press, 1948, 1958, 1965

Cook, J. M.  The Persian Empire.  London: J.M. Dent, 1983.  ISBN 805238468

Ctesias.  Persica.  (via Photius, Athenaeus, Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus)

 - As recounted by Photius:  http://www.vitaphone.org/history/photius.html
 - Plutarch:
 - Diodorus Siculus:

Dandamaev, Muhammad A.  A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire.  New York: E.J. Brill, 1989.  ISBN 9004091726

Dandamaev, Muhammad A. & Lukonin, Vladimir A   The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.  ISBN 521611911

Hallock, R.T.  Persepolis Fortification Tablets.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.  ISBN 226621952

Herodotus.  The Histories.  Trans. Robin Waterfield.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.  ISBN 0192824252

Kagan, Donald.  The Peloponnesian War.  New York: Viking Books, 2003.  ISBN 670032115

Olmstead, A.T.  History of the Persian Empire.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959.  ISBN 226627772

Plutarch.  Plutarch's Lives.  http://www.classicauthors.net/Plutarch/PlutarchsLives/

Thucydides.  The History of the Peloponnesian War.  Trans. Rex Warner.  New York: Penguin Group, 1972.  ISBN 0140440399

Wiesehofer, Josef.  Ancient Persia.  I.B. Tauris, 2001.  ISBN 1860646751

The Behistun Inscription, http://www.livius.org/be-bm/behistun/behistun01.html

Achaemenid Sources