STUDIES

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Greek-Persian Encounters c. 550 – c. 330 BCE: Looking Beyond Stereotypes. Antigoni Zournatzi, National Hellenic Research Foundation. UCLA Pourdavoud Institute, December 3, 2025.

Sample Studies entry: notes on the Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters project and its integrative approach to Greek–Iranian interactions.

The tomb of Cyrus is generally identified with a small stone monument about 1 km southwest of the palaces of Pasargadae, on the Morḡāb plain. Greek sources place the tomb of Cyrus II (559–529 BCE) in the royal park at Pasargadae; the fullest ancient description survives in Arrian’s Anabasis (drawing on Aristobulus), with related notes […]