Luxury and power Persia to Greece
ForewordsIntroduction1. Feasting like kings: luxury in Achaemenid Persia - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones2. Guilty pleasures: luxury in classical Athens - James Fraser3. Power and prestige in Alexander's empire and its successor kingdoms - Henry Bishop-WrightNotes and bibliographyAcknowledgements, pictu...
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London
The British Museum
2023
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BCE to c 500 CE
> ca. 500 v. Chr. bis ca. 1 v. Chr
> Excavations (Archaeology)
> Luxuries
> ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
> Ancient history: to c 500 CE
> Antike
> Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen
> Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
> HISTORY / Ancient / General
> HISTORY / Social History
> Social & cultural history
> Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
> Iran
> Antiquities
> Greece
> Civilization
> Ausstellungskatalog
> British Museum
> Griechenland
> Kunst
> Luxus
> Prestige
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| Zusammenfassung: | ForewordsIntroduction1. Feasting like kings: luxury in Achaemenid Persia - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones2. Guilty pleasures: luxury in classical Athens - James Fraser3. Power and prestige in Alexander's empire and its successor kingdoms - Henry Bishop-WrightNotes and bibliographyAcknowledgements, picture credits and index Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the centre of the royal Persian court and behaviours of ostentatious display rippled through the imperial provinces, whose elite classes emulated luxury objects in lesser materials. But luxury is contrastingly depicted through Athenian eyes - within the philosophical context of early democratic codes and the historical context of the Greco-Persian Wars, which suddenly and spectacularly brought eastern luxuries into the imagination of the Athenian populace for the first time. While Greek writers rejected luxury as eastern, despotic and corrupt, the Athenian elite adopted Persian luxuries in imaginative ways to signal status, distinction and prestige. Under the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great and its subsequent kingdoms, royal Achaemenid luxury culture would later be adopted and displayed by the Macedonian and local elite across the Greek and Middle Eastern worlds: behaviours of ostentatious display were a means to seek advantage in the new Hellenistic world order. Ultimately, this publication demonstrates how competing political spins woven around 2,500 years ago still continue to shape modern perceptions of luxury today |
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| Beschreibung: | Published to accompany the exhibition Luxury and power: Persia to Greece at the British Museum from 4 May to 13 August 2023 |
| Beschreibung: | 240 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780714111964 978-0-7141-1196-4 0714111961 0-7141-1196-1 |