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Ancient Persia in Western History: Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire : 9781780764801
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Ancient Persia in Western History: Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire : 9781780764801
$188.49
Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
| Author: Sasan Samiei |
| Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company |
| Publication Date: Jul 24, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 336 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1780764804 |
| ISBN-13: 9781780764801 |
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