Persianism in Antiquity (eBook)

Rolf Strootman, Miguel John Versluys (Herausgeber)

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2017
557 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-11386-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and later ages. This e-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.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Rolf Strootman & Miguel John Versluys:From Culture to Concept: The Reception and Appropriation of Persiain Antiquity
Part I: Persianization, Persomania, Perserie 34
Albert de Jong:Being Iranian in Antiquity (at Home and Abroad) 36
Margaret C. Miller:Quoting ‘Persia’ in Athens 50
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones:‘Open Sesame!’ Orientalist Fantasy and the Persian Court in GreekArt 430–330 BCE 70
Omar Coloru:Once were Persians: The Perception of Pre-Islamic Monuments in Iranfrom the 16th to the 19th Century 88
Judith A. Lerner:Ancient Persianisms in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Revivalof Persepolitan Imagery under the Qajars 108
David Engels:Is there a “Persian High Culture”? Critical Reflections on the Placeof Ancient Iran in Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of History 122
Part II: The Hellenistic World 146
Damien Agut-Labordère:Persianism through Persianization: The Case of Ptolemaic Egypt 148
Sonja Plischke: Persianism under the early Seleukid Kings? The Royal Title ‘Great King’ 164
Rolf Strootman:Imperial Persianism: Seleukids, Arsakids and Fratarak? 178
Matthew Canepa:Rival Images of Iranian Kingship and Persian Identity in Post-AchaemenidWestern Asia 202
Charlotte Lerouge-Cohen:Persianism in the Kingdom of Pontic Kappadokia The Genealogical Claimsof the Mithridatids 224
Bruno Jacobs:Tradition oder Fiktion? Die „persischen“ Elemente in den AusstattungsprogrammenAntiochos’ I von Kommagene 236
Benedikt Eckhardt:Memories of Persian Rule: Constructing History and Ideology inHasmonean Judea 250
Part III: Roman and Sasanian Perspectives 268
Valeria Sergueenkova & Felipe Rojas:Persia on their Minds: Achaemenid Memory Horizons in Roman Anatolia
Richard Gordon:Persae in spelaeis solem colunt: Mithra(s) between Persia and Rome 290
Eran Almagor:The Empire brought back: Persianism in Imperial Greek Literature 328
Michael Sommer:The Eternal Persian: Persianism in Ammianus Marcellinus 346
Richard Fowler:Cyrus to Arsakes, Ezra to Izates: Parthia and Persianism in Josephus 356
Josef Wiesehöfer:?r?n ud An?r?n: Sasanian Patterns of Worldview 382
Touraj Daryaee:The Idea of the Sacred Land of ?r?nšahr 394
M. Rahim Shayegan:Persianism: Or Achaemenid Reminiscences in the Iranianand Iranicate World(s) of Antiquity 402
Abbreviations 458
Bibliography 460

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Oriens et Occidens
• Zusatzinfo: 79 schw.-w. Abb.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Achaemenid Empire • Alertumswissenschaft • Alte Geschichte • Persian Empire
• ISBN-10: 3-515-11386-X / 351511386X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-11386-1 / 9783515113861