Ancient Greece and ancient Iran : cross-cultural encounters : 1st international conference, Athens, 11-13 November 2006 / edited by Seyed Mohammad Reza Darbandi and Antigoni Zournatzi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Europe and Asia : Aeschylus' Persians and Homer's Iliad / Stephen Tracy -- The Death of Masistios and the Mourning for his Loss / Angeliki Petropoulou -- Magi in Athens in the Fifth Century BC? / Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou -- Hajiabad and the Dialogue of Civilizations / Massoud Azarnoush -- Zoroastrianism and Christianity in the Sasanian Empire (Fourth Century AD) / Sara Aunia -- Greco-Persian Literary Interactions in Classical Persian Literature / Evangelos Venetis -- Pseudo-Aristotelian Politics and Theology in Universal Islam / Garth Fowden -- The System Artaphernes-Mardonius as an Example of Imperial Nostalgia / Michael N. Weiskopf -- Greeks and Iranians in the Cimmerian Bosporus in the Second-First Century BC : New Epigraphic Data from Tanais / Askold I. Ivantchik -- The Seleucids and Their Achaemenid Predecessors : A Persian Inheritance? / Christopher Tuplin -- Managing an Empire - Teacher and Pupil / G. G. Aperghis -- The Building Program of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae and the Date of the Fall of Sardis / David Stronach -- Persia and Greece : The Role of Cultural Interactions, in the Architecture of Persepolis-Pasargadae / Mohammad Hassan Talebian -- Reading Persepolis in Greek - Part Two: Marriage Metaphors and Unmanly Virtues / Margaret Cool Root -- The Marble of the Penelope from Persepolis and Its Historical Implications / Olga Palagia -- Cultural Interconnections in the Achaemenid West: A Few Reflections on the Testimony of the Cypriot Archaeological Record / Antigoni Zournatzi -- Greek, Anatolian, and Persian Iconography in Asia Minor : Material Sources, Method, and Perspectives / Yannick Lintz -- Imaging a Tomb Chamber : The Iconographic Program of the Tatarll Wall Paintings" With an Appendix by Alexander von Kienlin - Tatarll Project : Reconstructing a Wooden Tomb Chamber / Latife Summerer -- The Achaemenid Lion-Griffin on a Macedonian Tomb Painting and on a Sicyonian Mosaic / Stavros A. Paspalas -- Psychotropic Plants on Achaemenid Style Vessels / Despina Ignatiadou -- Achaemenid Toreutics in the Greek Periphery / Athanasios Sideris -- Achaemenid Influences on Rhodian Minor Arts and Crafts / Pavlos Triantafyllidis -- Historical Iranian and Greek Relations in Retrospect / Mehdi Rahbar -- Persia and Greece : A Forgotten History of Cultural Relations / Shahrokh Razmjou.

The extraordinary feats of conquest of Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great have left a lasting imprint in the annals of world history. Successive Persian and Greek rule over vast stretches of territory from the Indus to the eastern Mediterranean also created an international environment in which people, commodities, technological innovations, as well as intellectual, political, and artistic ideas could circulate across the ancient world unhindered by ethno-cultural and territorial barriers, bringing about cross-fertilization between East and West. These broad patterns of cultural phenomena are illustrated in twenty-four contributions to the first international conference on ancient Greek-Iranian interactions, which was organized as a joint Greek and Iranian initiative.