Recorded: March 9, 2020 Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Daniel Potts (New York University)
Descent and Marriage in Achaemenid Iran
The fourth lecture begins by examining the use of ethnos and genos in
Herodotus’ discussion of Median and Persian ‘tribes.’ It then turns to
the genealogy of Darius I; Xerxes’ succession; Sisigambis’ filiation and
descent; cross-cousin and parallel cousin marriage in the Achaemenid
royal families; uncle-niece marriage; and brother-sister incest.
About the Speaker
Daniel Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and
History in the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at
New York University. He received his AB (1975) and PhD (1980) in
Anthropology from Harvard University, specializing in Near Eastern
archaeology. He taught previously at the Freie Universität Berlin
(1981-86), the University of Copenhagen (1980-81, 1986-1991) and the
University of Sydney (1991-2012), where he held the Edwin Cuthbert Hall
Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology. His main areas of interest are
greater Iran, Mesopotamia, and the Persian Gulf, and as a field
archaeologist he has conducted numerous excavations, among others in
Iran and Turkey. He is a Corresponding Member of the German
Archaeological Institute and ISMEO (Associazione Internazionale di Studi
sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente), and is a Fellow of the Australian
Academy of the Humanities.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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