Edited by Elizabeth Morrison and Thomas Kren

Now in paperback

Paolo Giovio

with photographs by Rosamond Purcell

Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World Sale Books Edited by Elizabeth Morrison andEdited by Matthew P. Canepa A cutting edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever wider swath of Afro Eurasia