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Imagining Xerxes

Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King

Szerző: Emma Bridges
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Bloomsbury Publishing
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
67 125 Ft
Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throu...

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Szerző
Emma Bridges
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2014
oldal
256
EAN
9781472514271
ISBN
1472514270
Enbook ID
04805305
Kiadó
Bloomsbury Publishing
Súly
514
Méretek
163 x 243 x 19

Teljes leírás

Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king - which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army - has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes 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. Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It 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. Analysing these diverse representations of Xerxes, this title explores the reception of a key figure in the ancient world and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.

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