Bibliography on Persian Military (Primary)

Cyrus Cylinder

Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica

Ezra

Herodotus

Nabonidus Chronicle (Babylonian)

Persian Inscriptions translated in: Kent, R. G., Old Persian: Grammar, Texts, Lexicon, 2^nd ed., (1953)

Xenophon, Cyropaedia

Xenophon, Anabasis

Xenophon, On Horsemanship

Xenophon, The Cavalry Commander

Bibliography on Persian Military (Secondary)

Briant, Pierre, From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire (2002)

Broadman, John, et al., Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean, c. 525 to 479 BC, CAH, vol. 4, (Cambridge, 1988)

Cook, J. M., The Persian Empire, (London, 1983)

Dandamaev, Muhammad A., A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire, (Leiden: Brill, 1990)

Yarshater, ed., Encyclopaedia Iranica. (London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983-) [HBLL History/Rel Ref DS 253 .E62x 1983- Level 4]

Gershevitch, Ilya, ed., Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 2: The Median and Achaemenian Periods, (Cambridge, 1985)

Head, Duncan, The Achaemenid Persian Army, (Montvert Publications, 1992)

Kuhrt, Amelie, The Ancient Near East, c. 3000-330 BC, 2 vols., (London: Routledge, 1995), 2:647-701

Olmstead, A. T., A History of the Persian Empire, (University of Chicago Press, 1948)

Sancisi-Weerdenburg, H., et al., Achaemenid History, (8 vols. to date), (Leiden: Brill, 1987-1994)

Secunda, Nick, “The Persians,” in John Hackett, Warfare in the Ancient World, (New York: Facts on File, 1989), pp. 82-103

Wiesehofer, Josef. Ancient Persia: From 550 BC to 650 AD, (London: I B Tauris, 1998)

Yamauchi, Edwin M., Persia and the Bible, (1990)