The memory, or forgetting, of the Achaemenids in Sasanian late antiquity and the medieval period is a robust debate. I wrote a rather longish blog about it here:
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Did Sasanians Remember the Achaemenids… or Should They Have?
(Any unauthorised quotations, copying, or use of the following is strictly prohibited) The scholarly debate on whether the Sasanians, particularly the early Sasanians like Ardashir I, had any memor…
