04299nam 22005411c 450 991081303910332120200115203623.01-350-11343-31-4725-4028-X10.5040/9781472540287(CKB)2560000000353401(MiAaPQ)EBC5763099(Au-PeEL)EBL5763099(OCoLC)1099675132(OCoLC)1138549041(UtOrBLW)bpp09258426(EXLCZ)99256000000035340120150326d2000 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe emptiness of Asia Aeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century Thomas HarrisonLondon Duckworth 2000.1 online resource (194 pages)1-350-11341-7 0-7156-2968-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexpt. I. Framing the play -- pt. II. Finding Athens -- pt. III. ConclusionsAcknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Framing the play -- 1. Aeschylus the historian? -- 2. Politics and partisanship -- 3. Aeschylus, Atossa and Athenian ideology -- Part II. Finding Athens -- 4. The use and abuse of Persia -- 5. Where is Athens? -- 6. Athens and Greece -- 7. The emptiness of Asia -- 8. Democracy and tyranny -- Part III. Conclusions -- 9. Themistocles and Aristides -- 10. Athens and Persia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index"This is a literary study of Aeschylus' Persians alongside Herodotus' Histories, which offers a comprehensive understanding what actually happened at the battle of Salamis and afterwards. Thomas Harrison examines the political and ideological motivating factors underpinning Persai in the context of the times. Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events: the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C. It has frequently been mined for information on the tactics of Salamis or the Greeks' knowledge of Persian names or institutions, but it also has a broader value, one that has not often been realised. What does it tell us about Greek representations of Persia, or of the Athenians' self-image? What can we glean from it of the politics of early fifth-century Athens, or of the Athenians' conception of their empire? How, if at all, can such questions be approached without doing violence to the Persians as a drama? What are the implications of the play for the nature of tragedy?"--Bloomsbury PublishingThis is a literary study of Aeschylus' Persians alongside Herodotus' Histories, which offers a comprehensive understanding what actually happened at the battle of Salamis and afterwards. Thomas Harrison examines the political and ideological motivating factors underpinning Persai in the context of the times. Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events: the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C. It has frequently been mined for information on the tactics of Salamis or the Greeks' knowledge of Persian names or institutions, but it also has a broader value, one that has not often been realised. What does it tell us about Greek representations of Persia, or of the Athenians' self-image? What can we glean from it of the politics of early fifth-century Athens, or of the Athenians' conception of their empire? How, if at all, can such questions be approached without doing violence to the Persians as a drama? What are the implications of the play for the nature of tragedy?Literary studies: classical, early & medievalWar and literatureGreek drama (Tragedy)GreeceWar and literature.Greek drama (Tragedy)882.01Harrison Thomas1969-1713070UtOrBLWUtOrBLWUkLoBPBOOK9910813039103321The emptiness of Asia4105739UNINA