Book Details
Orange Code:95580
Paperback:334 pages
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1. Introduction2. Setting the Scene: Anthropology, Linguistics and Romantic Hellenism in Victorian Britain3. The ‘Race–Culture’ Debate: 1900s–1930s4. The ‘Diffusionism vs. Evolutionism’ Theoretical Debate, Gordon Childe and the Prehistory of Europe5. Hellenisms Reassessed (1890s–1940s): Part I6. Hellenisms Reassessed (1890s–1940s): Part II7. Hellenisms and the Historiography of Ancient Persia8. Concluding Remarks
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Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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