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LOV E THY N E IGHBOR : TH E INTIMAT E ART OF DI P LOMA C Y IN TH E P E RS E P OLIS P RO C E SSIONAL S C UL P TUR E S – TAASA Review September 2010

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This article was originally found in the September 2010 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 15).

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Stephanie Reed I n the 6th century BCE the Achaemenid Persians, an Indo-Iranian tribe and former vassals of the Medes, became the new rulers of the Ancient Near East, founding the first Iranian empire.

For roughly 200 years, from about 550 to 330 BCE, Cyrus II (the Great) and his successors controlled the largest territory in the ancient world before the advent of Rome.

During the reign of Darius I (c...