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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium

By Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P. J. Rhodes Abstract: This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the purpose of the book, which is to throw the maximum possible fresh light on both the consistency of…

Date: 18 July 2022
Category: Greek History Greek Resources

Herodotus on Drinking Wine in the Achaemenid World: Greek and Persian Perceptions

by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: Daryaee shows that Herodotus was not an infallible interpreter of foreign cultural practices by showing that his presentation of Persian court drinking practices misunderstood the centrality…

Date: 16 July 2022
Category: Greek Historiography Greek Resources Persian History

Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King

By Emma Bridges 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,…

Date: 18 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Art and Culture Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature

Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity

By Margaret C. Miller Book Description: It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Athenians hated and despised the Persians, but the claims of contempt are disproved by the evidence of archaeology, epigraphy,…

Date: 6 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Art and Culture Greek History Greek Resources Persian History

Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

By Emily Baragwanath Abstract: Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and was also critical to their interpretation in…

Date: 2 July 2021
Category: Archaic Greek History Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy

By Edith Hall Abstract: Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian’ world.…

Date: 2 July 2021
Category: Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources Greek Tragedy

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