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How the Persians were written out of history
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones reveals how a mighty ancient empire fell foul of a Greek smear campaign
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells Spencer Mizen why Eurocentric depictions of the “barbarous” Persians have obscured the achievements of one of the ancient world’s great civilisations.