CONTENTS
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| | Abbreviations and Symbols | xiii |
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| | Weights and Measures | xviii |
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| | 2. Titles for Royal Women | 13 |
| | | | The Use of basileia in Greek Sources | 18 |
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| | 3. Royal Marriage Alliances | 35 |
| | | | The Early Persian Kings | 41 |
| | | | | Achaemenid Kings after Darius I | 64 |
| | | Royal Daughters and the Nobility | 70 |
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| | 4. Royal Women and the Achaemenid Court | 83 |
| | | | | | | | Death and Funerary Customs | 98 |
| | | Power and Political Influence | 105 |
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| | 5. Women and the Economy of Achaemenid Persia | 123 |
| | | | Further Evidence of High-Ranking Women | 144 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 B.C.
Contributors: Maria Brosius - Author.
Publisher: Clarendon Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 1998.
Page number: ix.
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