Imagining Xerxes

Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King

Автор: Emma Bridges

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Hailed by Tom Holland as a 'fascinating and compendious survey of ancient attitudes to Xerxes' and n...

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Автор

Emma Bridges

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2015

страници

256

EAN

9781474260725

ISBN

1474260721

Enbook ID

09269224

Издател

Bloomsbury Publishing

Теглоt

404

Размери

156 x 234 x 20

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Hailed by Tom Holland as a 'fascinating and compendious survey of ancient attitudes to Xerxes' and now available in paperback, Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts. This Persian king, who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with Xerxes - which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army - has inspired a series of literary responses to the king in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court. Emma Bridges examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition.

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