Book Details
Orange Code:33150
Paperback:470 pages
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1. The Impact of the Persian Wars on Classical Greece2. Xerxes' Homer3. The View from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars4. Plato and the Persian Wars5. The Persian Wars in Fourth-Century Oratory and Historiography6. Images of the Persian Wars in Rome7. De Malignitate Plutarchi: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian Wars8. Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman Empire to Saddam Hussein9. Operatic Variations on an Episode at the Hellespont10. 'Shrines of the Mighty': Rediscovering the Battlefields of the Persian Wars11. From Marathon to Waterloo: Byron, Battle Monuments, and the Persian Wars12. 'People Like Us' in the Face of History: Cormon's Les Vainqueurs de Salamine13. Xerxes Goes to Hollywood14. The Guts and the Glory: Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of Fire
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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.
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