Cultural Responses To The Persian Wars

Author : Emma Bridges
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199279675
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars written by Emma Bridges and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaisssance world. Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, with a detailed Introduction and bibliographies, this book will interest historians, classicists, and students of both comparative and modern literatures.

Author : Emma Bridges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191707261
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars written by Emma Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early 5th century BC, this book brings together 16 interdisciplinary essays on individual trends within the reception of this period of history.

Author : Emma Bridges
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155751X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars written by Emma Bridges and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaisssance world. Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, with a detailed Introduction and bibliographies, this book will interest historians, classicists, and students of both comparative and modern literatures.

Author : Christopher Tuplin
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589462
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persian Responses written by Christopher Tuplin and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander. For Egyptologists and Assyriologists they belonged to an era that received scant attention compared with the glory days of the New Kingdom or the Neo-Assyrian Empire. For most archaeologists they were elusive in a material record that lacked a distinctively Achaemenid imprint. Things have changed now. The empire is an object of study in its own right, and a community of Achaemenid specialists has emerged to carry that study forward. Such communities are, however, apt to talk among themselves and the present volume aims to give a professional but non-specialist audience some taste of the variety of subject-matter and discourse that typifies Achaemenid studies. The broad theme of political and cultural interaction - reflecting the empire's diversity and the nature of our sources for its history - is illustrated in fourteen chapters that move from issues in Greek historiography through a series of regional studies (Egypt, Anatolia, Babylonia and Persia) to Zarathushtra, Alexander the Great and the early modern reception of Persepolis.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persian Wars written by Herodotus and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dispute as one between the forces of slavery on the one hand and freedom on the other. This work covers the rise of the Persian influence and a history of the Persian empire, a description and history of Egypt, and a long digression on the landscape and traditions of Scythia. Because of the comprehensiveness of this work, it was considered the founding work of history in Western literature. A must-have for history enthusiasts.

Author : Margaret C. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521607582
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC written by Margaret C. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.

Author : Margaret Christina Miller
Publisher : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521495981
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century B.C. written by Margaret Christina Miller and published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive collection of evidence pertaining to the relations between Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC. Archaeology, epigraphy, iconography and literature all reveal some facet of Athenian receptivity to Persian culture. This innovative and fully illustrated study traces the Athenian response as it appears in pot shapes, clothing, luxurious display and monumental architecture. Even while despising the Persians, the Athenians appropriated and reshaped aspects of Achaemenid culture to their own needs.

Author : Emma Bridges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472511328
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Xerxes written by Emma Bridges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court. Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition. Analysing these diverse representations of Xerxes, this title explores the reception of a key figure in the ancient world and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.

Author : George Beardoe Grundy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020441578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Persian War And Its Preliminaries: A Study Of The Evidence, Literary And Topographical; Volume 4 written by George Beardoe Grundy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study of the Persian Wars by historian George Beardoe Grundy is a valuable resource for scholars of ancient Greece and Persia. Drawing on literary and topographical evidence, Grundy examines the political, military, and cultural factors that led to this pivotal conflict. From the Ionian Revolt to the Battle of Marathon, this book provides a comprehensive and nuanced treatment of one of the most important events in world history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590208404
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thermopylae written by Paul Cartledge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a clash of ancient cultures: “Beautifully written and stirring . . . An outstanding retelling of one of the seminal events in world history.” —Booklist In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks, led by King Leonidas and a small army of Spartans, took the battle to the Persians at Thermopylae, and halted their advance—almost. It is one of history’s most acclaimed battles, one of civilization’s greatest last stands. And in Thermopylae, renowned classical historian Paul Cartledge looks anew at this history-altering moment and, most impressively, shows how its repercussions have bearing on us even today. The invasion of Europe by Xerxes and his army redefined culture, kingdom, and class. The valiant efforts of a few thousand Greek warriors, facing a huge onrushing Persian army at the narrow pass at Thermopylae, changed the way generations to come would think about combat, courage, and death. “A class in Western Civilization that both instructs and entertains.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)