Cultural responses to the Persian wars : antiquity to the third millennium / edited by Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bridges, Emma.

Hall, Edith, 1959-

Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C--Literature and the wars.

Greece.

Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C--Art and the wars.

Physical Description:

xv, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199279675

9780199279678

OCLC:

71241910