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ATHENS AND PERSIA IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC; A Study in Cultural Receptivity
199739291Cambridge University Press. 1997. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has tear to front panel and minor edgewear.; 345 pages; It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Athenians hated and despised the Persians but the claims of contempt are disproved by the evidence of archaeology epigraphy iconography and literature all of which reveal some facet of Athenian receptivity to Achaemenid Persian culture. The Athenian response was as richly complex as the spheres of interaction: both private and public elite and sub-elite. It appears in pot shapes clothing luxurious display and monumental architecture. This innovative study the first comprehensive collection of evidence pertaining to the relations between Athens and Persia in the fifth century BC aims to make this evidence better known and in so doing to argue that the social culture of classical Athens was not the monolithic construct it might appear . 0521495989 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
