Ancient Persia in Western History: Hellenism and the Representation of the Achaemenid Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781780764801)

Ancient Persia in Western History is a measured rejoinder to the dominant narrative that considers the Graeco-Persian Wars to be merely the first round of an oft-repeated battle between the despotic 'East' and the broadly enlightened 'West'. Sasan Samiei analyses the historiography which has skewed our understanding of this crucial era - contrasting the work of Edward Gibbon and Goethe, which venerated Classicism and Hellenistic history, with later writers such as John Linton Myres. Finally, Samiei explores the cross-cultural encounters which constituted the Achaemenid period itself, and repositions it as essential to the history of Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Author: Sasan Samiei
ISBN-10: 1780764804
ISBN-13: 9781780764801
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/24/2014
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.30d