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Ancient Persia in Western History: Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire

Ancient Persia in Western History: Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire

Samiei, Sasan

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Iranian Studies, Book 47

Ancient History GeneralGeneral World HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 1780764804
ISBN13: 9781780764801
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 24 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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.

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