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Livres anciens et modernes

Miller, Margaret C.

ATHENS AND PERSIA IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC A Study in Cultural Receptivity Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Année
1997
Auteur
Miller, Margaret C.
Éditeurs
Cambridge University Press
Thème
Art And Architecture Social & Cultural Greek History Near, Eastern Studies Near East Persian Empire
Description
Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Description
Hardcover ISBN 0521495989

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Initial in ink to front inner cover 'N' (Jenifer Neils). Light shelfwear to DJ. ; 345 pages; It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Athenians hated and despised the Persians, but the claims of contempt are disproved by the evidence of archaeology, epigraphy, iconography and literature, all of which reveal some facet of Athenian receptivity to Achaemenid Persian culture. The Athenian response was as richly complex as the spheres of interaction: both private and public, elite and sub-elite. It appears in pot shapes, clothing, luxurious display and monumental architecture. This innovative study, the first comprehensive collection of evidence pertaining to the relations between Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC, aims to make this evidence better known and in so doing to argue that the social culture of classical Athens was not the monolithic construct it might appear