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Writing Ancient Persia

Harrison, Thomas
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780715639177
Publisert
2011-01-19
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
248 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Harrison, Thomas

Biografisk notat

Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool.

Writing Ancient Persia

Harrison, Thomas
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
Harrison, Thomas
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
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<i>Writing Ancient Persia</i> is an ideal book for those new to Achaemenid history as it presents major current academic arguments and scholarship with a full bibliography for those interested in learning more from both Achaemenid and Greek scholars.

- Kirsty Mason, University of Kent, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

For those already involved in this field, it offers sufficient material to contemplate, and its contents, therefore, deserves attention of every serious Achaemenid historian.

- Jan P. Stronk, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, GNOMON

[Harrison's] arguments are balanced and manifest appreciation for the overall advance of Achaemenid historiography. This book should inspire productive debate among all scholars concerned with ancient Persia.

- Eric Ross, Religious Studies Review

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Harrison examines how histories of the Achaemedid Persian empire have been, are being, and might be written. He is a historian of Greece not Persia, he explains, but most of the sources for the period are Greek, though he actually focuses here on the earlier part of the period, for which Persian sources are more plentiful and only Herodotus' provide a Greek perspective.

- Reference and Research Book News,

The history of the Achaemenid Persian empire has been largely rewritten in the last thirty years by an international group of scholars, inspired partly by new sources of information, but also by a concerted attempt to look at Ancient Persia in its own terms, rather than through the lens of neighbouring societies, and to excise the pejorative bias of the Greek sources. This essay is a critique of this new Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history. It argues that the excising of Greek bias should be seen to be, if possible at all, a much more complex procedure. It then examines two themes in more detail: the representation of the Kings and Queens (in Greek sources and in recent histories of Persia), and the accounts given of the Persian Wars and the conquests of Alexander. It concludes with an analysis of past versions of Persian history, suggesting that there is a much greater degree of continuity between earlier accounts of Persia (often derided as narrowly Hellenocentric or orientalist) and those of the new Achaemenid historiography.
Les mer
This essay is a critique of this new Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history.

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Against the Grain
2. The Persian Version
3. Family Fortunes
4. Live and Let Live
5. Terra Incognita
6. Concluding Hostilities
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Les mer
A critique of Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history.
Inspired by new sources of information, this book shows a new image of the Persian empire
A series of polemical, revisionist or exploratory essays on central themes of ancient history, literature and thought, and their reception in the modern world. The series unsettles received wisdom, and will provoke debate and controversy both within and beyond Classics.
Les mer

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<i>Writing Ancient Persia</i> is an ideal book for those new to Achaemenid history as it presents major current academic arguments and scholarship with a full bibliography for those interested in learning more from both Achaemenid and Greek scholars.

- Kirsty Mason, University of Kent, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

For those already involved in this field, it offers sufficient material to contemplate, and its contents, therefore, deserves attention of every serious Achaemenid historian.

- Jan P. Stronk, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands, GNOMON

[Harrison's] arguments are balanced and manifest appreciation for the overall advance of Achaemenid historiography. This book should inspire productive debate among all scholars concerned with ancient Persia.

- Eric Ross, Religious Studies Review

Se alle

Harrison examines how histories of the Achaemedid Persian empire have been, are being, and might be written. He is a historian of Greece not Persia, he explains, but most of the sources for the period are Greek, though he actually focuses here on the earlier part of the period, for which Persian sources are more plentiful and only Herodotus' provide a Greek perspective.

- Reference and Research Book News,

The history of the Achaemenid Persian empire has been largely rewritten in the last thirty years by an international group of scholars, inspired partly by new sources of information, but also by a concerted attempt to look at Ancient Persia in its own terms, rather than through the lens of neighbouring societies, and to excise the pejorative bias of the Greek sources. This essay is a critique of this new Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history. It argues that the excising of Greek bias should be seen to be, if possible at all, a much more complex procedure. It then examines two themes in more detail: the representation of the Kings and Queens (in Greek sources and in recent histories of Persia), and the accounts given of the Persian Wars and the conquests of Alexander. It concludes with an analysis of past versions of Persian history, suggesting that there is a much greater degree of continuity between earlier accounts of Persia (often derided as narrowly Hellenocentric or orientalist) and those of the new Achaemenid historiography.
Les mer
This essay is a critique of this new Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history.

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Against the Grain
2. The Persian Version
3. Family Fortunes
4. Live and Let Live
5. Terra Incognita
6. Concluding Hostilities
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Les mer
A critique of Achaemenid historiography, concentrating on the difficulties of using Greek sources for the writing of Persian history.
Inspired by new sources of information, this book shows a new image of the Persian empire
A series of polemical, revisionist or exploratory essays on central themes of ancient history, literature and thought, and their reception in the modern world. The series unsettles received wisdom, and will provoke debate and controversy both within and beyond Classics.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780715639177
Publisert
2011-01-19
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
248 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
Harrison, Thomas

Biografisk notat

Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, University of Liverpool.

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