The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' "Persians" and the history of the fifth centuryAeschylus' 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? |
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Acknowledgements | 9 |
The use and abuse of Persia | 51 |
Where is Athens? | 58 |
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The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' 'Persians' and the History of the Fifth ... Thomas Harrison Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2019 |
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 Athenaion Politeia Athenians Athens Atossa attempt Attica audience Avery 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 emphasis enemies Ephialtes evidence example expedition Gagarin Goldhill Greece Greek Greek victory Griffith Hellespont Herodotus historical idea ideology implied Ionians judgement Kitto Lattimore Marathon Mardonius Michelini Miltiades observed oracle oriental parallels passage patriotic Pelling perhaps Pericles Peron Persian defeat Persian empire Persian kings Persian monarchy Persian royal Persian wars Phrynichus Plataea play play's Plut Podlecki poet political propaganda proskynesis Psyttaleia Queen question references reflect Salamis Salanitro 1965 Sancisi-Weerdenburg seen ships similar Simonides Soph Spartans story Strymon suggests surely Susa sympathy Taplin TGrF theme Themistoclean Themistocles Theseus Thuc Thucydides tion Tourraix tragedy tyranny Xerxes
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