Pierre Briant (born 30 September 1940 in Angers) is a French Iranologist, Professor of History and Civilisation of the Achaemenid World and the Empire...
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Germaine Briant (1903-2005), an American couple married for 83 years Michael E. Briant (born 1942), a British television director Pierre Briant (born 1940)...
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that he or his son were ever kings is rejected by historians such as Pierre Briant. In an inscription allegedly found in Hamadan he is called "king of...
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Their various version have points of agreement and divergence. See Pierre Briant, From Cyrus to Alexander, 563-567 for a review and summary. Thucydides...
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by Alexander under his own rule, he, in the words of the Iranologist Pierre Briant "may therefore be considered to have acted in many ways as the last...
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K. Hoffmann. "AVESTAN LANGUAGE I-III". Retrieved 14 January 2011. Pierre., Briant (2006). From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire....
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story created by Darius to justify his own usurpation. Iranologist Pierre Briant hypothesises that Bardiya was not killed by Cambyses, but waited until...
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of the code in which the author identifies himself exists. Historian Pierre Briant points out that the recent discovery of a customs memorandum from Egypt...
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century BC, Anshan became its own independent kingdom under Teispes. Pierre Briant places the formation of the kingdom of Anshan in this context, and dates...
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leaders, such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Thomas Jefferson. Pierre Briant wrote that given the poor information we have, "it seems quite reckless...
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