Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third MillenniumEmma Bridges, Edith Hall, P. J. Rhodes OUP Oxford, 15. feb. 2007 - 453 sider Introduction /Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes --The impact of the Persian wars on classical Greece /P.J. Rhodes --Xerxes' Homer /Johannes Haubold --The view from Eleusis : Demeter in the Persian Wars /Deborah Boedeker --Plato and the Persian wars /Christopher Rowe --The 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 --The 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 --The guts and the glory : Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of fire /Emma Bridges. |
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