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Persianism in Antiquity

Rolf Strootman, Miguel John Versluys (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

557 Seiten

2017
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-11382-3 (ISBN)

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The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and later ages. This book is the first to systematically chart these multiform ideas and associations over time and to define them in relation to one another, as Persianism. Hellenistic kings, Parthian monarchs, Romans and Sasanians: they all made a lot of meaning through the evolving concept of "Persia", as the twenty-one papers in this rich volume illustrate at length.
Persianism underlies the notion of an East-West dichotomy that still pervades modern political rhetoric. In Antiquity and beyond, however, it also functioned in rather different ways, sometimes even as an alternative to Hellenism.

Rolf Strootman is Associate Professor of History at Utrecht University. He studies imperial ideology, court culture and monarchical ritual in premodern empires. His current research project, "Royal Roads: The First World Empires and the Integration of Central Eurasia", examines how the mobile royal court created trans-cultural connectivity in the Achaemenid and Seleukid empires.

Miguel John Versluys is Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University. His research focusses on the nature and impact of Globalisation processes in the Hellenistic-Roman world.

"...a ground-breaking overview of why Persia was such an important symbol to construct meaning with and of providing food for thought about the concepts of 'Greece' or 'Egypt' to a wider scholarly audience, the theme of the interrelation of cultures, as the editors point out, being of particular relevance to the concerns of our contemporary world." Claire Gruzelier Classics For All, 25.04.2017

Erscheinungsdatum	11.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Oriens et Occiens ; Band 25
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1070 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Achaemenid Empire • Achämeniden • Alertumswissenschaft • Alte Geschichte • Antike • Persian Empire
ISBN-10	3-515-11382-7 / 3515113827
ISBN-13	978-3-515-11382-3 / 9783515113823
Zustand	Neuware