Lenders to the exhibition
Introduction: Ancient Iran and the classical world / Jeffrey Spier and Timothy Potts
Part 1: The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC. Map ; Time Line of Achaemenid Kings ; Persia Before the Persians / Timothy Potts ; Shifting Identities in Pre-Achaemenid Iran : Elamites, Medes, and Persians / Wouter F. M. Henkelman ; Kingship in the Achaemenid Empire / Robert Rollinger ; Visual Arts of Collective Imperial Identity : from Persepolis to the Mediterranean / Margaret Cool Root ; The Greco-Persian Wars : Image, Effect, and Afterlife / Margaret C. Miller ; Greeks, Lydians, Carians, and Lycians in Achaemenid Asia Minor / Jeffrey Spier ; Persia in Cyprus / Antigoni Zournatzi ; The Achaemenid Empire : Catalogue 1-78
Part 2: The Parthian Empire, ca. 247 BC-AD 224. Map ; Time Line of Seleucid and Arsacid Kings and Roman Emperors ; Alexander the Great and the Seleucids : Iran in the Hellenistic Period (ca. 330-150 BC) / Rolf Strootman ; The Parthian Empire / Jake Nabel ; Parthia and the Geography of Empire / Stefan R. Hauser ; In Search of Parthian Art : Arsacid Influence in the Representational Arts of the Parthian Empire / Lucinda Dirven ; Religion in the Parthian Empire / Albert de Jong ; Greek in Asia : Understanding Hellenism in Susa and Seleucia on the Tigris / Vito Messina and Miguel John Versluys ; The Parthian Empire : Catalogue 79-144
Part 3: The Sasanian Empire : AD 224-651. Map ; Time Line of Sasanian Kings and Roman and Byzantine Emperors ; The Sasanian Empire / M. Rahim Shayegan ; The Royal Image in Ancient Persia / Matthew P. Canepa ; Persia and Rome : the Historical and Ideological Gaze / Touraj Daryaee ; Epilogue: The End of Antiquity in Iran and the Postclassical Inheritance / Hugh Kennedy ; The Sasanian Empire: Catalogue 145-209.
