Persia's Greek campaigns : kingship, war, and spectacle on the Achaemenid frontier /
The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings & the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE), especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE), are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history, & therefore, we often hear about them through Greek accounts. While the Persians lef...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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- 1st ed.
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The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings & the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE), especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE), are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history, & therefore, we often hear about them through Greek accounts. While the Persians left no campaign narratives, their documents, artwork, & artifacts offer the foundations for an illuminating reassessment of these pivotal conflicts. Using seals & documents from Achaemenid Persepolis, as well as comparative evidence from Persia's Mesopotamian imperial predecessors, this book shows that these conflicts did not emerge from policies of infinite expansion or iterations of 'East vs. West' struggle. Instead, the Persians drew on a long tradition of Near Eastern royal campaigns, in which kings travelled to distant frontiers to advertise their heroism, divine favour, & universal power.
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- 1 online resource (774 pages)
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- Specialized.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0-19-766049-5
0-19-766051-7
0-19-766050-9
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Parallelausgabe: 0-19-766048-7
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