Janett Morgan

Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire (eBook, PDF)

Persia Through the Looking Glass

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748647248
• Artikelnr.: 50215506

Autorenporträt

Janett Morgan is an interdisciplinary ancient Greek historian. Her research focuses on material culture and its representation in ancient texts, investigating the ways in which individuals, groups and communities in Greece and Achaemenid Iran used architecture and artefacts to create religious, social and political identities and to express differences. She is the author of The Classical Greek House (Bristol Phoenix Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Perspectives, Looking-Glasses and the Achaemenid Empire
1. Journeys of the Mind: Greek perspectives of the East before the
Achaemenid Empire
2. Journeys through the Looking-Glass: early perspectives of the Achaemenid
Empire
3. Facing the Gorgon: reactions to the Achaemenid Empire in Classical
Athens
4. What the Butler saw: intimate perspectives of King and court in
Classical Ionian texts
5. The Mirror Crack'd: Spartan responses to the east and the Achaemenid
Empire
6. Entering the Hall of Mirrors: Macedonia and the Achaemenid Empire
Conclusion: travelling with eunuchs
Bibliography