Persian Empires Since the Achaemenids
Fri 27 Sep 2024, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The philosopher Georg Hegel trumpeted the Achaemenids as launching the historical process by creating the earliest empire in the modern sense of rule over a number of peoples. Cyrus established this great empire, from the Indus to the Aegean Sea, before the unification of China or the expansion of Rome. The Arabs might have conquered the subsequent empire of the Sasanids but Persia supplied the materials for Islam, as the Greeks and Romans did for Christendom. This lecture offers an introduction to the course of empire in Persia (Iran since the 1920s).
Event Information
Price: £10.00
Course Weeks: 1
Room: Kincaid Hall
Campaign: Autumn Term 2024
Your Tutor
Name: Michael Williams
Bio: Michael Williams has an undergraduate degree in History and an MSc in Politics. For 21 years he worked as a ministerial adviser in Whitehall before leaving for academic life in 1995. He spent another 26 years teaching a great variety of courses in different universities until retiring in 2021. He’s been teaching courses on politics and history at the Settlement for several years. He published a book on Britain since 1867 in 2000 and a family memoir in 2022. Michael is currently working on a sequel.
Department: Humanities
