LEADER 04298nam 22005411c 450 001 9910459227603321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-350-11343-3 010 $a1-4725-4028-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472540287 035 $a(CKB)2560000000353401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5763099 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5763099 035 $a(OCoLC)1099675132 035 $a(OCoLC)1138549041 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09258426 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000353401 100 $a20150326d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe emptiness of Asia $eAeschylus' Persians and the history of the fifth century $fThomas Harrison 210 1$aLondon $cDuckworth $d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (194 pages) 311 $a1-350-11341-7 311 $a0-7156-2968-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $apt. I. Framing the play -- pt. II. Finding Athens -- pt. III. Conclusions 327 $aAcknowledgements -- 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 330 $a"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 Publishing 330 8 $aThis 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? 606 $2Literary studies: classical, early & medieval 606 $aWar and literature 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy) 607 $aGreece 615 0$aWar and literature. 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy) 676 $a882.01 700 $aHarrison$b Thomas$f1969-$0870668 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459227603321 996 $aThe emptiness of Asia$91943658 997 $aUNINA LEADER 05709nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910782288003321 005 20230721032552.0 010 $a1-281-39729-6 010 $a9786611397296 010 $a0-8135-4462-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813544625 035 $a(CKB)1000000000535679 035 $a(EBL)348826 035 $a(OCoLC)476163909 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258059 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11193278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258059 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10254121 035 $a(PQKB)10688385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC348826 035 $a(OCoLC)236079244 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse20022 035 $a(DE-B1597)530373 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813544625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL348826 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10231505 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL139729 035 $a(OCoLC)1058753708 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000535679 100 $a20070227d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTheorizing Scriptures$b[electronic resource] $enew critical orientations to a cultural phenomenon /$fedited by Vincent L. 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Andrews --$tSignifying scriptures from an African perspective /$rOyeronke Olajubu --$tTransforming identities, de-textualizing interpretation, and re-modalizing representation: scriptures and subaltern subjectivity in India /$rSathianathan Clarke --$tSignification as scripturalization: communal memories among the Miao and in ancient Jewish allegorization /$rSze-kar Wan --$gTalking back --$tConjuring scriptures and engendering healing traditions /$rYvonne P. Chireau --$tVisualizing scriptures /$rColleen McDannell --$tSignifying in nineteenth-century African American religious music /$rJacqueline Cogdell Djedje --$tSignifying proverbs: Menace II society /$rErin Runions --$tScriptures beyond script: some African diasporic occasions /$rGrey Gundaker --$tTexture, text, and testament: reading sacred symbols/signifying imagery in American visual culture /$rLeslie King-Hammond --$gTalking back --$tDifferences at play in the fields of the lord /$rSusan F. Harding --$tAmerican Samson: biblical reading and national origins /$rLaura E. Donaldson --$tAgainst signifying: psychosocial needs and natural evil /$rLeonard Harris --$tOrality, memory, and power: Vedic scriptures and Brahmanical hegemony in India /$rPatrick Olivelle --$tReading places/reading scriptures /$rWesley A. Kort --$tTaniwha and serpent: a trans-Tasman riff /$rJo Diamond --$tScriptures without letters, subversions of pictography, signifyin(g) alphabetical writing /$rJose? Rabasa --$gTalking back --$tIn Hoc Signum Vincent: a Midrashist replies /$rBurton L. Visotzky --$tPowerful words: the social-intellectual location of the international signifying scriptures project /$rElisabeth Schu?ssler Fiorenza --$tRacial and colonial politics of the modern object of knowledge: cautionary notes on "scripture" /$rJoseph Parker --$tWho needs the subaltern? /$rRanu Samantrai --$gTalking back. 330 $aHistorically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. Their content is most frequently analyzed by clerics who do not question the underlying political or social implications of the text, but use the writing to convey messages to their congregations about how to live a holy existence. In Western society, moreover, what counts as scripture is generally confined to the Judeo-Christian Bible, leaving the voices of minorities, as well as the holy texts of faiths from Africa and Asia, for example, unheard. 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