© Serials Publications.The actuality of this paper is due to the research of the diplomatic relations between West and East, which is currying out in the modern scholarship. The aim of the paper is to investigate the ...

This article discusses the use of the term “aristocracy” for the history of the Ancient East as a whole, and of the Achaemenid Empire, in particular. Turning to this issue, the authors demonstrate, in a number of examples, ...