Imagining Xerxes : ancient perspectives on a Persian king
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Bridges, Emma
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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Umfang/Format: |
xi, 233 pages : illustrations. |
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Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
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ISBN: | 9781472511324 9781472511379 |
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
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Online available (Ebook Central) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: encountering Xerxes
- Staging Xerxes: Aeschylus and beyond
- Historiographical enquiry: the Herodotean Xerxes-narrative
- Xerxes in his own write? The Persian perspective
- Pride, panhellenism and propaganda: Xerxes in the fourth century bc
- The king at court: alternative (hi)stories of Xerxes
- The past as a paradigm: Xerxes in a world ruled by Rome
- Epilogue: re-imagining Xerxes.