This Is A Critique Of This New Achaemenid Historiography, Concentrating On The Difficulties Of Using Greek Sources For The Writing Of Persian History. The History Of Achaemenid Persia - The Empire Of Cyrus The Great, Darius And Xerxes - Has Largely Been Rewritten In The Last Thirty Years By An International Group Of Scholars. Inspired By New Sources Of Information, And By A Determination To See Persia In Its Own Terms, Historians Have Created A Powerful New Image Of The Persian Empire: Tightly Organised And Resilient, Tolerant Towards The Religions And Cultures Of Its Subject Peoples, And With Kings And Queens Whose Concerns Were Pragmatic Rather Than Whimsically Argues That Excising Greek Bias (if It Is Possible At All) Should Be Seen To Be A Much More Complex Procedure.