Cultural responses to the Persian wars : antiquity to the third millennium / edited by Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bridges, Emma Hall, Edith, 1959- Rhodes, P. J. (Peter John)
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. > Literature and the wars. Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. > Art and the wars. Grèce > Histoire > 500-449 av. J.-C. (Guerres médiques) > Littérature et guerre. Grèce > Histoire > 500-449 av. J.-C. (Guerres médiques) > Art et guerre.
Genre:	Art and the wars.
Physical Description:	xv, 453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction / Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes
The impact of the Persian wars on classical Greece / P.J. Rhodes
Xerxes' Homer / Johannes Haubold
The view from Eleusis : Demeter in the Persian Wars / Deborah Boedeker
Plato and the Persian wars / Christopher Rowe
The Persian wars in fourth-century oratory and historiography / John Marincola
Images of the Persian wars in Rome / Philip Hardie
De malignitate Plutarchi : Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian wars / Christopher Pelling
Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman empire to Saddam Hussein / Edith Hall
Operatic variations on an episode at the Hellespont / David Kimbell
'Shrines of the mighty' : rediscovering the battlefields of the Persian wars / Ian Macgregor Morris
From Marathon to Waterloo : Byron, battle monuments, and the Persian wars / Timothy Rood
Enacting history and patriotic myth : Aeschylus' Persians on the eve of the Greek War of Independence / Gonda Van Steen
The Persian wars as the 'origin' of historiography : ancient and modern orientalism in George Grote's History of Greece / Alexandra Lianeri
'People like us' in the face of history : Cormon's Les vainqueurs de Salamine / Clemence Schultze
Xerxes goes to Hollywood / D.S. Levene
The guts and the glory : Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of fire / Emma Bridges.