Cultural responses to the Persian wars : antiquity to the third millennium /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bridges, Emma (επιμελητής.), Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John), 1940- (επιμελητής.), Hall, Edith, 1959- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Θέματα: Ελλάδα > Ιστορία > Περσικοί Πόλεμοι, 500-449 π.Χ.

 List of Illustrations-- List of Contributors xii -- Note on Abbreviations xvi -- SECTION I. ARCHETYPAL THEME --1 Introduction Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P. J. Rhodes -- 2 The Impact of the Persian Wars on Classical Greece P. J. Rhodes -- 3 Xerxes' Homer -- Johannes Haubold -- 4 The View from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars -- Deborah Boedeker -- SECTION II. ANCIENT VARIATIONS -- 5 Plato and the Persian Wars -- Christopher Rowe 6 The Persian Wars in Fourth-Century Oratory and Historiography -- John Marincola -- 7 Images of the Persian Wars in Rome -- Philip Hardie -- 8 De malignitate Plutarchi: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian Wars -- Christopher Pelling -- SECTION III. RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT REDISCOVERY -- 9 Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman Empire to Saddam Hussein -- Edith Hall 10 Operatic Variations on an Incident at the Hellespont -- David Kimbell --11 ¿Shrines of the Mighty¿: Rediscovering the Battlefields of the Persian Wars --Ian Macgregor Morris -- SECTION IV. NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY --12 From Marathon to Waterloo: Byron, Battle Monuments, and the Persian Wars -- Tim Rood -- 13 Enacting History and Patriotic Myth: Aeschylus' Persians on the Eve of the Greek War of Independence --Gonda Van Steen -- 14 The Persian Wars as the ¿Origin¿ of Historiography: Ancient and Modern Orientalism in George Grote's History of Greece -- Alexandra Lianeri -- 15 ¿People like us¿ in the Face of History: Cormon's Les Vainquers de Salamine -- Clemence Schultze SECTION V. LEONIDAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 16 Xerxes Goes to Hollywood -- David Levene --17 The Guts and the Glory: Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of Fire -- Emma Bridges -Index.