Persia
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Sample Lecture Topics
Sample Lecture Topics
- Biblical times and the rise of the Achaeminids
- History of the Achaeminid dynasty: Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes
- Alexander the Great and new rulers in Persia: the Parthians and the Sassanians
- Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, indigenous religions of Persia
- The rise of Islam and its Persian heritage
- Artistic and cultural legacies
- Persian literature and art, defined and illustrated, religious and secular, including poetry, painting, calligraphy, and architecture
- Technologies, including metalwork, ceramics
- Under Mongol rule
- Persian empire of the Safavids, rulers in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Role of trade within and beyond the Persian world, including along the Silk Roads across Asia
- Iran today, its legacy and its position in world affairs
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