Notions of Democracy and Human Rights/What Really Led to War

  1. Abbott, J. (1902). Cyrus the Great. New York and London: Harper & Brothers
  2. Boyce, M. (1987). Zoroastrianism: A shadowy but Powerful Presence in the Judaeo-Christian World. London: Dr. Williams’s Trust.
  3. Curtis, J. (2000). Ancient Persia. London: British Museum.
  4. Delebeque, E., & Bizos, M. (1971-1978). Cyrope´die. Texte e´tabli et traduit par Marcel Bizos. Paris : Les Belles Lettres.
  5. Farrokh, K. (2007). Shadows in the Desert: Persia at War. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  6. Frye, R.N. (1962). The Heritage of Persia. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  7. Frye, R.N. (1984). History of Ancient Iran. Munich: C.H. Beck.
  8. Moorey, P.R.S. (1975). Ancient Iran. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum.
  9. Oxtoby, W.G. (1973). Ancient Iran and Zoroastrianism in Festschriften: An Index. Waterloo, Ontario: Council on the Study of Religion, Executive Office, Waterloo Lutheran University; Shiraz, Iran: Asia Institute of Pahlavi University.
  10. Spatari. N. (2003). Calabria, L’enigma Delle Arti Asittite: Nella Calabria Ultramediterranea. Italy: MUSABA.
  11. Wiesehofer, J. (1996). Ancient Persia: from 550 BC to 650 AD. London and New York: IB Tauris.
  12. The Greco-Persian Wars and the Battle of Salamis
  13. Cartledge, P. (2004). The Spartans. Random House
  14. Cook, J.M. (1962). The Greeks in Ionia and the East. London: Thames & Hudson.
  15. Farrokh, K. (2005). Elite Sassanian Cavalry. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  16. Farrokh, K. (2007). Shadows in the Desert: Persia at War. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  17. Head, D. (1992). The Achaemenid Persian Army. Stockport: Montvert Publications.
  18. Holland, T. (2006). Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. Doubleday Publishing.
  19. Khorasani, M.M. (2006).Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to end of the Qajar Period. Legat Verlag.
  20. Sekunda, N. (1992). The Persian Army. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  21. Wallinga, H.T. (2005). Xerxes’ Greek Adventure: The Naval Perspective. Leiden Brill Academic Publishers.

The Portrayal of Iranians and Greeks

  1. Ewen, S. & Ewen, E. (2006). Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality New York: Seven Stories Press.
  2. Parenti, M. (1992). Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
  3. Shaheen, J. (1984). The TV Arab. Bowling green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
  4. McChesney, R.W. (1997). Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy. New York: Seven Stories Press.
  5. See also on-line posting by Darius Kadivar:
    1. Sword and Sandals: Films about Ancient Persia
    2. http://www.iranian.com/DariusKadivar/2003/January/Bigger/index.html

Iranian Women

  1. Brosius, M. (1998). Women in Ancient Persia: 559-333 BC. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Davis-Kimball, J. (2002). Warrior Women: An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Hidden Heroines. Clayton, Victoria: Warner Books.
  3. Farrokh, K. (2005). Elite Sassanian Cavalry. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  4. Farrokh, K. (2007). Shadows in the Desert: Persia at War. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd.
  5. Winchester, B.P.P. (1930). The heroines of ancient Persia: Stories Retold from the Shahnama of Firdausi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.