The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' 'Persians' and the History of the Fifth CenturyBloomsbury Publishing, 2 Μαΐ 2019 - 192 σελίδες This is a literary study of Aeschylus' Persians alongside Herodotus' Histories, which offers a comprehensive understanding what actually happened at the battle of Salamis and afterwards. Thomas Harrison examines the political and ideological motivating factors underpinning Persai in the context of the times. Aeschylus' Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events: the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B.C. It has frequently been mined for information on the tactics of Salamis or the Greeks' knowledge of Persian names or institutions, but it also has a broader value, one that has not often been realised. What does it tell us about Greek representations of Persia, or of the Athenians' self-image? What can we glean from it of the politics of early fifth-century Athens, or of the Athenians' conception of their empire? How, if at all, can such questions be approached without doing violence to the Persians as a drama? What are the implications of the play for the nature of tragedy? |
Περιεχόμενα
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Part I Framing the play | 23 |
Part II Finding Athens | 49 |
Part III Conclusions | 93 |
Notes | 117 |
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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' 'Persians' and the History of the Fifth ... Thomas Harrison Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 2000 |
The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' 'Persians' and the History of the Fifth ... Thomas Harrison Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2019 |
The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the History of the Fifth Century Thomas Harrison Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2015 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Achaemenid Aeschy Aeschylus allusions ancient arguably arguing Aristides Aristophanes army Artabanus Asia and Europe Athenians Athens Atossa attempt Attica barbarian battle Belloni Broadhead 1960 Chorus Cimon Cimonian clothes Conacher context contrast course critics Cyrus D.M. Lewis Darius Delian League Demaratus democratic divine dramatic Edith Hall emphasis empire enemies Ephialtes evidence example expedition Gagarin gods Goldhill Greece Greek Greek victory Griffith Hellespont Herodotus historical idea ideology imperial Ionians judgement King's Kitto Lattimore Marathon Mardonius Michelini Miltiades myth oracle oriental parallels passage patriotic Pelling perhaps Pericles Péron Persian defeat Persian kings Persian monarchy Persian royal Persian wars Phoenician Women Phrynichus Plataea play play's Plut Podlecki poet political propaganda proskynesis Psyttaleia Queen question references reflect Saïd Salamis Salanitro 1965 Sancisi-Weerdenburg seen ships similar Simonides Soph Spartans story Strymon suggests surely Susa sympathy Taplin theme Themistoclean Themistocles Theseus Thuc Thucydides tion Tourraix tragedy tyranny Xerxes