Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 13
Note on Abbreviations......Page 17
SECTION I. ARCHETYPAL THEME......Page 18
1 Introduction......Page 20
2 The Impact of the Persian Wars on Classical Greece......Page 48
3 Xerxes\' Homer......Page 64
4 The View from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars......Page 82
SECTION II. ANCIENT VARIATIONS......Page 100
5 Plato and the Persian Wars......Page 102
6 The Persian Wars in Fourth-Century Oratory and Historiography......Page 122
7 Images of the Persian Wars in Rome......Page 144
8 De Malignitate Plutarchi: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian Wars......Page 162
SECTION III. RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT REDISCOVERY......Page 182
9 Aeschylus\' Persians via the Ottoman Empire to Saddam Hussein......Page 184
10 Operatic Variations on an Episode at the Hellespont......Page 218
11 \'Shrines of the Mighty\': Rediscovering the Battlefields of the Persian Wars......Page 248
SECTION IV. NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY......Page 282
12 From Marathon to Waterloo: Byron, Battle Monuments, and the Persian Wars......Page 284
13 Enacting History and Patriotic Myth: Aeschylus\' Persians on the Eve of the Greek War of Independence......Page 316
14 The Persian Wars as the \'Origin\' of Historiography: Ancient and Modern Orientalism in George Grote\'s History of Greece......Page 348
15 \'People Like Us\' in the Face of History: Cormon\'s Les Vainqueurs de Salamine......Page 372
SECTION V. LEONIDAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 398
16 Xerxes Goes to Hollywood......Page 400
17 The Guts and the Glory: Pressfield\'s Spartans at the Gates of Fire......Page 422
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