480 BCE. The Persian Attack on Athens and its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece / edited by Janric van Rookhuijzen, Josine Blok, and Floris van den Eijnde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blok, Josine, editor.

Eijnde, Floris van den, editor.

Rookhuijzen, Janric van, editor.

Series:

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 11.

Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical Studies.

Athens (Greece)--History--Siege, 480 B.C.

Athens (Greece).

Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 480 BCE, during their invasion of Greece, the Persians began the destruction of Athens. How has this event shaped our understanding of Greek history? This interdisciplinary volume investigates the commemoration of the attack in Antiquity and how it became anchored in modern scholarship as a watershed dividing Archaic and Classical Greece. Drawing on ancient literature, material culture, including deposits in the Athenian Agora, and reception history, the book explores if and how the destruction of Athens stimulated cultural innovation. By investigating the significance of 480 BCE as a historical anchor for the scholarship on ancient Greece, the volume reopens the discussion on the periodization of Archaic and Classical Greece.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

List of Figures and Tbles

Introduction: The Impact of the Persian Attack on Athens on the Study of Ancient Greece

Janric van Rookhuijzen

1 The Trauma of 480 BCE as an Anchor: The Destruction of the City and the Rebuilding of the Community

Giorgia Proietti

2 After Evacuation and Victory: A Turning Point in the Creation of the Athenian State Burial

Marion Meyer

3 Rewriting History: The Battle of Salamis, 480 BCE

Mathieu de Bakker

4 Ctesias’ Persian History and the Destruction(s) of Ionia

Hans van Wees

5 Herodotus on 480 BCE and the Chronology of Late Archaic Greece

Angelika Kellner

6 480 BCE : The Making of a World-Historical Date

Suzanne Marchand

7 Revisiting the ‘Persian Destruction’ Wells of the Athenian Agora

Michael Laughy and Floris van den Eijnde

8 Persian Destruction Deposits from the Athenian Agora Excavations: Pottery Chronology and its Challenges

Kathleen M. Lynch

9 Another Look at the Stoa Gutter Well

Steve F. Matter and Susan I. Rotroff

10 Revolution or Evolution? Reassessing the Relationship between Vase and Free Painting after 480 BCE

Federico Figura

11 Phokaean Electrum Coinage and Klazomenian Red-Figure Decoration: Or, the Dangers of Overreliance on Athenian Chronologies in Asia Minor

Anja Slawisch

12 480 BCE as a Marker in Greek Literary History

André Lardinois

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74660-9

OCLC:

1559218103

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004746602 DOI