... the custom was instituted during the Persian Wars, and recently in the pseudo-Lysianic Epitaphios. Isocrates argues them anew, and in a new style, in the epideictic section. Throughout the whole of this long section, the underlying theme is that of justice, the right which Athens has to the leadership...

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... Aeschines Scholia to Klytiadai Dorieus Iamidai Kallias Kroton talismanic figures and Teisamenos Herodotus Histories talismanic power Persian Wars Greek athlete oikist I begin with an observation and a paradox. First, the observation. Greek colonial expeditions resembled in certain fundamental...

...This introductory chapter considers the implications of the aftermath of the Persian Wars. Prior to Sparta's defeat of the Persian army, there was every reason to suppose that the Greek resistance would collapse and that Hellas would soon fall. When the dust had settled, however, it gradually...

... in terms of the Greek/Barbarian dichotomy. The chapter also shows how key aspects of the Greek/Barbarian dichotomy developed. The poetry from Homer until the Persian Wars contains only hints of the Greek/Barbarian stereotypes. In the Persae, Aeschylus presents the victorious Greeks as free...

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... Cosmas Indicopleustes Tūbarlaq Ammianus Marcellinus Cave of Treasures Hormizd IV r 579–590 Yazdgird I r 399–420 Anōshazād Syriac Alexander legend imperial apocalyptic ideology Book of Daniel Aphrahat Cosmas Indicopleustes Mar Abā Persian Christians Roman-Persian Wars The conventional wisdom...

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... for the Greco-Persian Wars. Diodorus’ version of them differs in places from the best-known version, that by Herodotus, and therefore adds to our understanding of these wars (or at least questions the absolute trust at present frequently placed in Herodotus’ account). Str 10 3 19 472 Str 10 3 7 466 Str 14 2 7...

... The Sacred Band BBC 1944 Turkey Egypt Louis MacNeice radio features propaganda wartime BBC Radio World War II Nazism democracy Pericles Xenophon Greco-Persian Wars This chapter examines the ways in which Louis MacNeice employed and, at times, manipulated historical narratives of ancient Greece...

... the eastern half, is mountainous and has been heavily wooded since the early Holocene, despite a long history of human exploitation for fuel and construction purposes. This chapter begins by considering how a narrative account of ancient northern Aegean economies might be approached. The Greco-Persian wars...

...This chapter addresses the very different presentation of the Persian Wars by 4th-century historians and by the patriotic Athenian orators, as writers of both forensic and political speeches, including the epitaphioi logoi at which it was customary to catalogue Athenian victories...

...This chapter examines the vogue in 17th- and 18th-century opera for dramatizing the episode of Xerxes at the Hellespont. Thus, one of the most important ways in which people were educated about the Persian Wars at this time was through the imaginative fictions sung by the stars of this hugely...

... of the well-known Phye episode as modelled on an anodos festival in honour of Athena. Homer explanatory function Iliad diplomatic discourse Gallic Wars heroes ‘with local attachments’ Panhellenic Persian wars Trojan wars Aphrodite Apollo Athena auditory experiences deos disguise...

...’—but eclipse of 7. 37. ii 10 April 481? = when he set out from Susa? ⁷⁶ This chapter studies the kinds of chronological information given in Herodotus' history, arguing that there is a Persian-based series of dates for the Ionian Revolt and the Persian Wars, 500-480...

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... OF THE PERSIAN WAR Introduction In 340/ 39 BCE the orator Aeschines was dispatched to serve as the Athenian representative to the Delphic Amphictyony, an international body that oversaw the sanctuary at Delphi. Even for the fourth century the political situation was exceptionally volatile. Athens was at war...

...During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began...

...This chapter chronicles the beginnings of a new democratic order in the Athenian government via the reforms of Cleisthenes and the new democracy's trial by fire during the Persian Wars. While democracy had no inventor or discoverer, Cleisthenes was credited with reforms that challenged the role...

... of Sicily: the expedition of Athens to Sicily as it is narrated by Thucydides, and with the ways in which Thucydides' account mirrors Greek representations of the Persian wars. Both Thucydides' Athens and Herodotus' Persia emerge also as powers driven to expand. Imperial expansion is seen almost as a form...