In the name of God Persian influence on Greece By: Janine Bakker The ancient Persian and Greek cultures did not exist in isolation. There was cross-f ertilization. The present art icle contains a description of Persia's influence on Gre ece. Introduction The first part of this article is not to read, but to look at: In front of us, we see the extensive Achaemenid empire (green, stretching from the Indus in the east to the !editerranean "ea in the west# $e %ond the Aegean "ea, almost at the left edge of this map, we see a green area that consists of several islands and cit%&states, which have not %et decided whether the% are one countr% or not# That is Greece# Iranian Ama'ing ollection