Imagining Xerxes
/ Emma Bridges
Edition 1
978-1-47426-072-5
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Imagining Xerxes / / Emma BridgesPublication Details
لندن : : Bloomsbury، 2015مPhysical Description
xi, 233 p.؛ ; 24 cm.؛ : ill..Subject
Xerxes I, King of Persia, 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.Greece
History
Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C
Historiography
Iran
Kings and rulers
Biography
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(Bloomsbury studies in classical reception؛ )Language
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-225) and index.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-225) and index.
