A Level Invention of the Barbarian 1.6 Reality of Persia

A podcast by DJ Watkins and AJ Keen of Bristol Grammar school to help Class Civ pupils to revise for their Invention of the Barbarian component.
1.6 Reality of Persia

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:55 The Achaemenid Dynasty
• 5:23 Statue of Darius I from Susa
• 7:45 Government, tributes, and satrapies
• 9:30 The Cyrus cylinder
• 16:47 The Arshama Archive and Persepolis tablets
• 19:12 Bisitun relief
• 26:20 Tomb of Cyrus the Great, Pasargadai
• 28:04 Palace of Darius at Susa
• 28:44 Persepolis
• 33:14 Achaemenid and Greek art
• 34:04 Statuette from the Oxus Treasure
• 36:21 Gold armlets from the Oxus Treasure
• 37:54 Silver rhyton ending in a griffin
• 40:10 Lapis Lazuli head found in Persepolis
• 44:13 Herodotus and the reality of Persia