Nematollahi, Narges

In this study, I examine official epistolary traditions in pre-Islamic Iran, under the Achaemenids (550 – 320 BCE), the Seleucids (312 – 129 BCE), the Arsacids (129 BCE – 224 CE) and the Sasanians (224 – 650 CE). Each dynasty had a different official language; The Achaemenid Emp…