Achaemenids and Seleucids in Georgia

The purpose of this chapter is to construct the history of Colchis as it developed from the later stages of the colonial processes which were explored in the previous chapter. Vital to that history is the Persian empire and, thereafter, its Seleucid successor in the region, though ancient Georgia has seldom been considered in these broad imperial contexts. Persian cultural influences combined with Greek impact both from the coast and from the Hellenistic powers of the south. Influences came also from the steppe, north of the Caucasus, which seem to have had a more significant place in the development of the region than has usually been acknowledged. And, of course, these external influences blended with a local culture which, already by the fifth century bc, was a plurality of sub-cultures, as we saw in the previous chapter.

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