Josef Wiesehöfer
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Josef Wiesehöfer (born April 5, 1951 in Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German classical scholar and former professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics of the University of Kiel. He is an internationally renowned expert on the history of pre-Islamic Persia and the forms of contact between the Greek and Roman World and the Ancient Near East. His most famous publication is Ancient Persia, 550 BC to 650 AD (London - New York 2001).
Publications
Books
- Der Aufstand Gaumātas und die Anfänge Dareios' I. Bonn 1978.
- Die Anfänge von Literalität und Textualität in Europa: Das Alphabet und die Folgen in griechischer Zeit. Hagen 1987.
- Ancient Persia. London 1996.
- Die „dunklen Jahrhunderte“ der Persis. Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur von Fārs in frühhellenistischer Zeit (330–140 v. Chr.). Munich 1994.
- Iraniens, Grecs et Romains. Paris 2005.
Selected papers
- Die 'Freunde' und 'Wohltäter' des Großkönigs. In: Studia Iranica 9, 1980, pp. 7–21.
- Geteilte Loyalitäten. Religiöse Minderheiten des 3. und 4. Jahrhunderts im Spannungsfeld zwischen Rom und dem sasanidischen Iran. In: Klio 75, 1993, pp. 362–382.
- "King of Kings" and "Philhellên": Kingship in Arsacid Iran. In: Per Bilde etc. (eds.): Aspects of Hellenistic Kingship, Aarhus 1996, pp. 55–66.
- Dekadenz, Krise oder überraschendes Ende? Überlegungen zum Zusammenbruch der Perserherrschaft. In: Helmut Altrichter u. a. (eds.): Das Ende von Großreichen, Erlangen/Jena 1996, pp. 39–64.
- Gebete für die ‚Urahnen‘ oder: Wann und wie verschwanden Kyros und Dareios aus der Tradition Irans?. In: Electrum 6, 2002, pp. 111–117.
- Rūm as Enemy of Iran. In: Erich S. Gruen (ed.): Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 105–120.
- King, Court and Royal Representation in the Sasanian Empire. In: Antony Spawforth (ed.): The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies, Cambridge 2007, pp. 58–81.
- The Late Sasanian Near East. In: Chase Robinson (ed.): The New Cambridge History of Islam 1, Cambridge 2010, pp. 98–152.
- Polybios und die Entstehung des römischen Weltreicheschemas. In: Volker Grieb etc. (eds.): Polybios und seine Historien, Stuttgart 2013, pp. 59–70.
- Greek Poleis in the Near East and Their Parthian Overlords. In: Adam Kemezis (ed.): Urban Dreams and Realities, Boston/Leiden 2015, pp. 328–346.
- Women of the Sassanid Dynasty (224-651 CE). In: Sabine Müller etc. (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World, New York 2021, pp. 246–255.
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