Imagining Xerxes [electronic resource] : ancient perspectives on a Persian king / Emma Bridges.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bridges, Emma
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Series:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception
Subjects:
Xerxes > I, > King of Persia, > 519 B.C.-465 B.C. or 464 B.C.
Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. > Historiography.
Iran > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2015 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.