Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars Antiquity to the Third Millennium
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Biografisk notat
Emma Bridges is Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Edith Hall is Professor of Classics and Drama, Royal Holloway, and Co-Director, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. P. J. Rhodes is Honorary Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham....one must applaud a number of fine contributions among the sixteen essays...
Victor Davis Hanson, TLS
Wide-ranging, accessible and eclectric, this volume establishes itself effortlessly as a standard text within an ever-burgeoning field of reception studies.
Joseph Skinner, JHS
...a major contribution to Classical reception-studies and to Western cultural historiography more generally.
Paul Cartledge, The Anglo-Hellenic Review
...a useful entree for assessing the impact of the Greco-Persian conflict on medieval/Byzantine societies...Highly recommended.
Choice
Anyone interested in the cultural significance of the Persian Wars from antiquity to the modern era will have cause to turn to this volume for a wide range of approaches to the reception of the Persian Wars in the separate chapters covering more than two millennia and various topics.
Bryn Mawr Reviews
highly interesting
Alan Beal, The Journal of Classics Teaching