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Zusatztext highly interesting Informationen zum Autor Emma Bridges is Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Edith Hall is Professor of Classics and Drama, Royal Holloway, and Co-Director, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. P. J. Rhodes is Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the enormous impact that the Persian Wars, fought in the fifth century BC, have had on Western ideas of history, liberty, resistance, and national identity. Sixteen internationally acclaimed classical scholars discuss treatments of these famous wars in art, theatre, philosophy, poetry, biography, and modern cinema and fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Archetypal Theme 1: The Editors: Introduction 2: P. J. Rhodes: The impact of the Persian Wars on classical Greece 3: Johannes Haubold: Xerxes' Homer 4: Deborah Boedeker: The view from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars Ancient Variations 5: Christopher Rowe: Plato and the Persian Wars 6: John Marincola: The Persian Wars in fourth-century oratory and historiography 7: Philip Hardie: Images of the Persian Wars in Rome 8: Christopher Pelling: De malignitate Plutarchi: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian Wars Renaissance and Enlightenment Rediscovery 9: Edith Hall: Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman Empire to Saddam Hussein 10: David Kimbell: Operatic variations on an Episode at the Hellespont 11: Ian Macgregor Morris: Shrines of the mighty: rediscovering the battlefields of the Persian Wars Nationhood and Identity 12: Tim Rood: From Marathon to Waterloo: Byron, battle monuments, and the Persian Wars 13: Gonda Van Steen: Enacting history and patriotic myth: Aeschylus' Persians on the eve of the Greek War of Independence 14: Alexandra Lianeri: The Persian Wars as the `origin' of historiography: ancient and modern orientalism in George Grote's History of Greece 15: Clemence Schultze: `People like us' in the face of history: Cormon's Les Vainquers de Salamine Leonidas in the Twentieth Century 16: David Levene: Xerxes goes to Hollywood 17: Emma Bridges: The guts and the glory: Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of Fire ...
