480 Bce. the Persian Attack on Athens and Its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004745544)

Vendor: Janric Van Rookhuijzen
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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480 Bce. the Persian Attack on Athens and Its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece

$140.00

480 Bce. the Persian Attack on Athens and Its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece

$140.00
Format: Hardcover
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In 480 BCE, during their invasion of Greece, the Persians began the destruction of Athens. How has this event shaped our understanding of Greek history? This interdisciplinary volume investigates the commemoration of the attack in Antiquity and how it became anchored in modern scholarship as a watershed dividing Archaic and Classical Greece. Drawing on ancient literature, material culture, including deposits in the Athenian Agora, and reception history, the book explores if and how the destruction of Athens stimulated cultural innovation. By investigating the significance of 480 BCE as a historical anchor for the scholarship on ancient Greece, the volume reopens the discussion on the periodization of Archaic and Classical Greece.

Author: Janric Van Rookhuijzen
ISBN-10: 9004745548
ISBN-13: 9789004745544
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2025
Pages: 358
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.88d
By Janric Van Rookhuijzen
By Janric Van Rookhuijzen
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Janric van Rookhuijzen is a researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Following his dissertation entitled Herodotus and the Topography of Xerxes' Invasion. Place and Memory in Greece and Anatolia (Berlin 2018), he published widely on the archaeology of the Athenian Acropolis.

Josine Blok is professor emeritus in Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University. Her publications include Citizenship in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2017) and, with Irad Malkin, Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2024).

Floris van den Eijnde, lecturer and researcher of Ancient History at Utrecht University, studies religious and cultural interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean world. His work focuses on the rise of the Athenian polis (1200-500 BCE) and the role of sanctuaries in identity formation.

Contributors are: Mathieu de Bakker, Floris van den Eijnde, Federico Figura, Angelika Kellner, André Lardinois, Michael Laughy, Kathleen M. Lynch, Suzanne Marchand, Steve F. Matter, Marion Meyer, Giorgia Proietti, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Susan I. Rotroff, Anja Slawisch, Hans van Wees

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