Opis: Persian Responses

A generation ago the Achaemenid Empire was a minor sideshow within long-established disciplines. For Greek historians the Persians were the defeated national enemy, a catalyst of change in the aftermath of the fall of Athens or the victim of Alexander. For Egyptologists and Assyriologists they belonged to an era that received scant attention compared with the glory days of the New Kingdom or the Neo-Assyrian Empire. For most archaeologists they were elusive in a material record that lacked a distinctively Achaemenid imprint. Things have changed now.The empire is an object of study in its own right, and a community of Achaemenid specialists has emerged to carry that study forward. Such communities are, however, apt to talk among themselves and the present volume aims to give a professional but non-specialist audience some taste of the variety of subject-matter and discourse that typifies Achaemenid studies. The broad theme of political and cultural interaction reflecting the empire's diversity and the nature of the sources for its history is illustrated in fourteen chapters that move from issues in Greek historiography through a series of regional studies (Egypt, Anatolia, Babylonia and Persia) to Zarathushtra, Alexander the Great and the early modern reception of Persepolis. The papers in Persian Responses are excellent examples of the new Persian historiography. They range widely over the whole field of Achaemenid studies and well illustrate the potential of the new critical approach to the sources characteristic of it to offer new insights into all aspects of Persian history. [...]... Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interactions with(in) the Achaemenid Empire will interest all scholars interested in Achaemenid history.' -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State U., Los Angeles Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.07.44Thucydides' Portrait of Tissaphernes Re-Examined (John Hyland); Xenophon's Wicked Persian, or What's Wrong with Tissaphernes? Xenophon's Views on Lying and Breaking Oaths (Gabriel Danzig); On Persian Tryphe in Athenaeus (Dominique Lenfant); Treacherous Hearts and Upright Tiaras: the Achaemenid King's Head-dress (Christopher Tuplin); Darius I in Egypt: Suez and Hibis (Alan Lloyd); Indigenous Aristocracies in Hellespontine Phrygia (Frederic Maffre); Hellenization and Lycian Cults during the Achaemenid Period (Eric Raimond); Babylonian Workers in the Persian Heartland during the reign of Cambyses (Wouter Henkelman & Kristin Kleber); Reading Persepolis in Greek: the Gifts of the Yauna (Margaret Cool Root); Boxus the Persian and the Hellenization of Persis (Nicholas Sekunda); The Philosopher's Zarathushtra (Phiroze Vasunia); Alexander the Great: 'Last of the Achaemenids'? (Robin Lane Fox); 'Chilminar olim Persepolis': European Reception of a Persian Ruin (Lindsay Allen); Pottering around Persepolis: Observations on Early European Visitors to the Site (St John Simpson).

Szczegóły: Persian Responses

Tytuł: Persian Responses
Producent: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 9781905125180
Rok produkcji: 2007
Ilość stron: 374
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.83 kg

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