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It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Athenians hated and despised the Persians, but the claims of contempt are disproved by the evidence of archaeology, epigraphy, iconography and literature, all of which reveal some facet of Athenian receptivity to Achaemenid Persian culture. The Athenian response was as richly complex as the spheres of interaction: both private and public, elite and sub-elite. It appears in pot shapes, clothing, luxurious display and monumental architecture. This innovative study, the first comprehensive collection of evidence pertaining to the relations between Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC, aims to make this evidence better known and in so doing to argue that the social culture of classical Athens was not the monolithic construct it might appear.
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This is the first comprehensive collection of evidence pertaining to the relations between Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC. Archaeology, epigraphy, iconography and literature all reveal some facet of Athenian receptivity to Persian culture. This innovative and fully illustrated study traces the Athenian response as it appears in pot shapes, clothing, luxurious display and monumental architecture. Even while despising the Persians, the Athenians appropriated and reshaped aspects of Achaemenid culture to their own needs.
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When Simonides composed his elegy celebrating the Greek victory at Plataia, he compared the Persian with the Trojan Wars.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near Eastern, Persian Wars, Persian Empire, New York, Asia Minor, East Greek, Achaemenid Empire, Delian League, Iron Age, Peloponnesian War, Great King, Odeion of Perikles, Cyrus the Great, Phiale Ptr, Achaemenid Persian, Black Sea, South Italian, Street of the Tripods, Tribute Lists, Bronze Age, East Greece, Eurymedon River, Group of Polygnotos, Hellespontine Phrygia, Kleophon Ptr New!
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When Simonides composed his elegy celebrating the Greek victory at Plataia, he compared the Persian with the Trojan Wars.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near Eastern, Persian Wars, Persian Empire, New York, Asia Minor, East Greek, Achaemenid Empire, Delian League, Iron Age, Peloponnesian War, Great King, Odeion of Perikles, Cyrus the Great, Phiale Ptr, Achaemenid Persian, Black Sea, South Italian, Street of the Tripods, Tribute Lists, Bronze Age, East Greece, Eurymedon River, Group of Polygnotos, Hellespontine Phrygia, Kleophon Ptr New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on 6 pages
- The Meidias Painter (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology) by Lucilla Burn on page 168, and Back Matter
- The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie on page 247, and Back Matter
- Ancient Greece (History As Evidence) by John Ellis Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Adam Ferguson on page 243, and Back Matter
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