The Emptiness of Asia : Aeschylus' 'Persians' and the History of the Fifth Century.

Harrison, Thomas.
The Emptiness of Asia :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781350113435 (electronic bk.)
9780715629680
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0273
Yayın Bilgisi
©2000.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (194 pages)
Dizi
Criminal Practice Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Framing the play -- 1. Aeschylus the historian? -- 2. Politics and partisanship -- 3. Aeschylus, Atossa and Athenian ideology -- Part II. Finding Athens -- 4. The use and abuse of Persia -- 5. Where is Athens? -- 6. Athens and Greece -- 7. The emptiness of Asia -- 8. Democracy and tyranny -- Part III. Conclusions -- 9. Themistocles and Aris tides -- 10. Athens and Persia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
Aeschylus' “Persions“ is the first surviving Greek drama. This book provides aims to provide both a more satisfactory reading of the “Persians“ and a richer picture of fifth-century history - the history both of events and ideology.
Konu
Aeschylus.-Persae..
Aeschylus-Criticism and interpretation..
Greece-History-Persian Wars, 500 B.C.-449 B.C.-Literature and the war.
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