Document Type : Scientific-Research
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1 Associate professor, Department of History, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
2 PhD Student, Department of History, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Socratic conversation of "Lysis" is one of the first works of Plato. In this conversation Achaemenid empire and issues related to it had mentioned twice. At first, the great Achaemenid king with his domination of Asia and his legacy to his son are mentioned. It is also written about Darius I and her wealth in this conversation.
The purpose of this article is to reflect on some of the images and appearance of the Achaemenid empire in the minds of its contemporaries. With this point of view, in this article, only one of these two cases, namely Plato's words about rulership and dominion of the great king of Persia over the entire land of Asia, has been studied. In fact, this research through a critical reading of "Lysis" and a number of contemporary Achaemenid Greek texts, tries to investigate what ideas caused the image and concept of the Persian king dominating Asia in the minds of the Greeks of the 5th and 4th centuries BC to be created.
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