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Record Nr.

UNISA996208047603316

Titolo

Cultural responses to the Persian wars [[electronic resource] ] : antiquity to the third millennium / / edited by Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-38398-1

9786612383984

0-19-155751-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BridgesEmma

HallEdith <1959->

RhodesP. J (Peter John)

Disciplina

938.03

Soggetti

Greece History Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C

Greece History Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C Literature and the war

Greece History Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C Art and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Note on Abbreviations; SECTION I. ARCHETYPAL THEME; SECTION II. ANCIENT VARIATIONS; SECTION III. RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT REDISCOVERY; SECTION IV. NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY; SECTION V. LEONIDAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 thepost-Renaisssance world. Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, with a detailed Introduction and bibliographies, this book