Imagining Xerxes ancient perspectives on a Persian king
Dissertation, University of Durham
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney
Bloomsbury
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, University of Durham 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 233 Seiten Illustrationen (black and white) 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1474260721 1-4742-6072-1 9781474260725 978-1-4742-6072-5 9781472514271 978-1-4725-1427-1 |