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

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Disciplina: 938.03
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Altri autori: BridgesEmma HallEdith <1959-> RhodesP. J (Peter John)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural responses to the Persian wars
• ISBN: 1-282-38398-1; 9786612383984; 0-19-155751-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996208047603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno