Description |
xv, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction / Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes -- Impact of the Persian wars on classical Greece / P.J. Rhodes -- Xerxes' Homer / Johannes Haubold -- View from Eleusis : Demeter in the Persian Wars / Deborah Boedeker -- Plato and the Persian wars / Christopher Rowe -- Persian wars in fourth-century oratory and historiography / John Marincola -- Images of the Persian wars in Rome / Philip Hardie -- De malignitate Plutarchi : Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian wars / Christopher Pelling -- Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman empire to Saddam Hussein / Edith Hall -- Operatic variations on an episode at the Hellespont / David Kimbell -- 'Shrines of the mighty' : rediscovering the battlefields of the Persian wars / Ian Macgregor Morris -- From Marathon to Waterloo : Byron, battle monuments, and the Persian wars / Timothy Rood -- Enacting history and patriotic myth : Aeschylus' Persians on the eve of the Greek War of Independence / Gonda Van Steen -- Persian wars as the 'origin' of historiography : ancient and modern orientalism in George Grote's History of Greece / Alexandra Lianeri -- 'People like us' in the face of history : Cormon's Les vainqueurs de Salamine / Clemence Schultze -- Xerxes goes to Hollywood / D.S. Levene -- Guts and the glory : Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of fire / Emma Bridges. |
Subject |
Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Literature and the war.
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Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Art and the war.
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Genre/Form |
Art.
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Art.
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Added Author |
Bridges, Emma.
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Hall, Edith, 1959-
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Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)
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ISBN |
0199279675 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780199279678 |
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