I tried to answer your PM but you have me on "ignore."
Here's the answer....although I don't know if you'll be able to see it.
Here's the answer....although I don't know if you'll be able to see it.
Quote:Abbot's a little early for my tastes. I generally consider 19th century scholarship too primitive in light of subsequent discoveries. When I read Mary Boyce's book on Zoroastrianism she referred to a guy named Frye as the leading historian.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/phoenix-...1842120118
There is also another guy named Olmstead but there was a cautionary note in her bibliography that he had a number of inaccuracies and the book originally dates to 1948. I did see a note about Olmstead though that said his book was written from the Persian rather than the Greek point of view. That's a matter of taste.
With any of this stuff it sort of depends on what you can get your hands on.
