Review of Llewellyn-Jones, Persians

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Persians: the age of the great kings.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Persians: the age of the great kings. New York: Basic Books, 2022. Pp. xiv, 431. ISBN 9781541600348

Review by
Farnoosh Shamsian, Leipzig University. farnoosh.shamsian@uni-leipzig.de

... “Persians” is not a tedious history book full of lifeless descriptions. With his literary abilities, Llewellyn-Jones has created an entertaining narrative of Persian history, so that reading “Persians” feels more like reading a novel than history. Excerpts and quotations are, however, used sparingly and without precise referencing, making it difficult to locate the source of information. ...

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