Cultural responses to the Persian wars : antiquity to the third millennium /
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| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006028301.html |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.
