Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King 9781474260725

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Автор: Emma Bridges
Название: Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King
ISBN: 9781474260725
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

История Европы

История классических цивилизаций древности

ISBN-10: 1474260721
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 24.09.2015
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 155 x 15
Читательская аудитория: College/higher education
Ключевые слова: European history,Classical history / classical civilisation, HISTORY / Ancient / General,HISTORY / Ancient / Greece,LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Основная тема: European history,HISTORY / Ancient / General,HISTORY / Ancient / Greece,LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical,Classical history / classical civilisation
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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.
Дополнительное описание: Introduction: Encountering Xerxes 1. Staging Xerxes: Aeschylus and beyond 2. Historiographical enquiry: the Herodotean Xerxes-narrative 3. Xerxes in his own write? The Persian perspective 4. Pride, panhellenism and propaganda: Xerxes in the fourth cen

Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King, Emma Bridges