| Contents | 6 |
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| Acknowledgments | 8 |
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| Rolf Strootman | 8 |
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| Part I: Persianization, Persomania, Perserie | 34 |
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| Albert de Jong:Being Iranian in Antiquity (at Home and Abroad) | 36 |
| Margaret C. Miller:Quoting ‘Persia’ in Athens | 50 |
| Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones:‘Open Sesame!’ Orientalist Fantasy and the Persian Court in GreekArt 430–330 BCE | 70 |
| Omar Coloru:Once were Persians: The Perception of Pre-Islamic Monuments in Iranfrom the 16th to the 19th Century | 88 |
| Judith A. Lerner:Ancient Persianisms in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Revivalof Persepolitan Imagery under the Qajars | 108 |
| David Engels:Is there a “Persian High Culture”? Critical Reflections on the Placeof Ancient Iran in Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of History | 122 |
| Part II: The Hellenistic World | 146 |
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| Damien Agut-Labordère:Persianism through Persianization: The Case of Ptolemaic Egypt | 148 |
| Sonja Plischke: Persianism under the early Seleukid Kings? The Royal Title ‘Great King’ | 164 |
| Rolf Strootman:Imperial Persianism: Seleukids, Arsakids and Fratarak? | 178 |
| Matthew Canepa:Rival Images of Iranian Kingship and Persian Identity in Post-AchaemenidWestern Asia | 202 |
| Charlotte Lerouge-Cohen:Persianism in the Kingdom of Pontic Kappadokia The Genealogical Claimsof the Mithridatids | 224 |
| Bruno Jacobs:Tradition oder Fiktion? Die „persischen“ Elemente in den AusstattungsprogrammenAntiochos’ I von Kommagene | 236 |
| Benedikt Eckhardt:Memories of Persian Rule: Constructing History and Ideology inHasmonean Judea | 250 |
| Part III: Roman and Sasanian Perspectives | 268 |
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| Valeria Sergueenkova | 268 |
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| Richard Gordon:Persae in spelaeis solem colunt: Mithra(s) between Persia and Rome | 290 |
| Eran Almagor:The Empire brought back: Persianism in Imperial Greek Literature | 328 |
| Michael Sommer:The Eternal Persian: Persianism in Ammianus Marcellinus | 346 |
| Richard Fowler:Cyrus to Arsakes, Ezra to Izates: Parthia and Persianism in Josephus | 356 |
| Josef Wiesehöfer:?r?n ud An?r?n: Sasanian Patterns of Worldview | 382 |
| Touraj Daryaee:The Idea of the Sacred Land of ?r?nšahr | 394 |
| M. Rahim Shayegan:Persianism: Or Achaemenid Reminiscences in the Iranianand Iranicate World(s) of Antiquity | 402 |
| Abbreviations | 458 |
| Bibliography | 460 |
