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Автор: Vernon L. Provencal
Название: Sophist Kings: Persians as Other in Herodotus
ISBN: 9781780936130
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

История Европы

История Азии

История классических цивилизаций древности

ISBN-10: 1780936133
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 344
Вес: 0.66 кг.
Дата издания: 30.07.2015
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 243 x 163 x 24
Читательская аудитория: College/higher education
Ключевые слова: Classical history / classical civilisation,Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, HISTORY / Ancient / General,PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Основная тема: Classical history / classical civilisation,HISTORY / Ancient / General,PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical,Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
Подзаголовок: Persians as other in herodotus
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Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology.

The Persians as the Greek other have a crucial role throughout Herodotus Histories, but their characterisation is far divorced from historical reality. Instead, from their first appearance at the beginning of the Histories, Herodotus presents the Persians as adept in the argumentation of Greek sophists active in mid-5th century Athens. Moreover, Herodotus construct of the Sophist King, in whom political reason serves human ambition, is used to explain the Achaemenid model of kingship whose rule is grounded in a theological knowledge of cosmic order and of divine justice as the political good.

This original and in-depth study explores how the ideology which Herodotus ascribes to the Persians comes directly from fifth-century sophists whose arguments served to justify Athenian imperialism. The volume connects the ideological conflict between panhellenism and imperialism in Herodotus contemporary Greece to his representation of the past conflict between Greek freedom and Persian imperialism. Detecting a universal paradigm, Sophist Kings argues that Herodotus was suggesting the Athenians should regard their own empire as a betrayal of the common cause by which they led the Greeks to victory in the Persian wars.

Дополнительное описание: Preface Introduction Chapter One: Herodotus and the Histories Chapter Two: Herodotus and the Sophists Chapter Three: Herodotus and the Persians Chapter Four: Persians as Other in Herodotus Chapter Five: Sophist Kings Bibliography

Sophist Kings: Persians as Other in Herodotus, Vernon L. Provencal