03006nam 22005771 450 991015488870332120200513105437.00-7556-2396-71-322-63994-90-85772-414-210.5040/9780755623969(CKB)3810000000019601(EBL)3012099(SSID)ssj0001454767(PQKBManifestationID)11791219(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001454767(PQKBWorkID)11496115(PQKB)10550524(MiAaPQ)EBC3012099(OCoLC)903957677(UtOrBLW)bpp09265670(EXLCZ)99381000000001960120200605d2014 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrAncient Persia in Western history Hellenism and the representation of the Achaemenid Empire /by Sasan SamieiFirst edition.London :I.B. Tauris,2014.1 online resource (334 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78076-480-4 Includes bibliographical references.""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Setting the Scene: Anthropology, Linguistics and Romantic Hellenism in Victorian Britain""; ""3. The Race-Culture Debate: 1900-1930's""; ""4. The Diffusionism vs. Evolutionism Theoretical Debate, Gordon Childe and the Prehistory of Europe""; ""5. Hellenisms Reassessed (1890-1940's): Part I""; ""6. Hellenisms Reassessed (1890-1940's): Part II""; ""7. Hellenisms and the Historiography of Ancient Persia""; ""8. Concluding Remarks""; ""Postscript""; ""Glossary""""Notes""""Bibliography"""Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East."--Bloomsbury Publishing.HellenismHistoriographyLiterary studies: generalBICIranHistoryTo 640HistoriographyHellenismHistoriography.Literary studies: general.938.08Samiei Sasan1212882UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910154888703321Ancient Persia in Western history2801003UNINA