Achaemenid Women: Putting the Greek Image to the Test

Yazdan Safaee (1)

1 CeRMI - Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien

The historians of ancient Greece, as part of the elite of Greek communities, of their own time. By studying the works of these historians one can become familiar with these traditions and the common view on the world in Greek culture regarding various issues and concepts. The purpose of this paper is to study and analyze the Greek approach to women and the effect of this approach on the way the history of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. ((550-ca. 330 BC) was written. Our central theme in this paper is the question of the connection between the Greek perspective on women and the reliability of narratives related to women in the accounts of Achaemenid history by Greek historians.

Mots clés: Achaemenid Empire; Persian Women

Domaines: Histoire; Histoire

Yazdan Safaee. Achaemenid Women: Putting the Greek Image to the Test. Talanta, 2016, 48-49, pp. 101-132. ⟨halshs-03237858⟩