Ancient Persia: http://www.livius.org/persia.html
Bust of
Antiochus IV Epiphanes:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/
Antiokhos_IV.jpg
“Hanukkah, the
Festival of Lights,” by Adele Reinhartz:
http://global.oup.com/obso/focus/focus_on_hanukkah/
Seleucid Empire: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sleu/hd_sleu.htm
Seleucid Empire
in 200 b.c.e. (map):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/
Seleucid-Empire_200bc.jpg
Seleucid and
Ptolemaic Empires (map):
http://www.swartzentrover.com/cotor/bible/Bible/IT/
Seleucid%20and%20Ptolemaic%20Empires.htm
The Rise of Judaism: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/rise-judaism.html