Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium (Hardback)

Emma Bridges (editor), Edith Hall (editor), P. J. Rhodes (editor)

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Hardback 462 Pages / Published: 15/02/2007

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Synopsis

Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaisssance world. Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, with a detailed Introduction and bibliographies, this book will interest historians, classicists, and students of both comparative and modern literatures.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199279678
Number of pages: 462
Weight: 931 g
Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 25 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

...one must applaud a number of fine contributions among the sixteen essays... * Victor Davis Hanson, TLS *
Wide-ranging, accessible and eclectric, this volume establishes itself effortlessly as a standard text within an ever-burgeoning field of reception studies. * Joseph Skinner, JHS *
...a major contribution to Classical reception-studies and to Western cultural historiography more generally. * Paul Cartledge, The Anglo-Hellenic Review *
...a useful entree for assessing the impact of the Greco-Persian conflict on medieval/Byzantine societies...Highly recommended. * Choice *
Anyone interested in the cultural significance of the Persian Wars from antiquity to the modern era will have cause to turn to this volume for a wide range of approaches to the reception of the Persian Wars in the separate chapters covering more than two millennia and various topics. * Bryn Mawr Reviews *
highly interesting * Alan Beal, The Journal of Classics Teaching *