Imagining Xerxes : ancient perspectives on a Persian king

1. Verfasser: Bridges, Emma.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Umfang/Format: xi, 233 pages : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
Schlagworte:
Xerxes > I, > King of Persia, > 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.
Persien > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. > Historiography.
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Online Zugang: 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.

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