LEADER 04299nam 22005411c 450 001 9910813039103321 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-$01713070 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813039103321 996 $aThe emptiness of Asia$94105739 997 $aUNINA