Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Emptiness of Asia. ISBN 0715629689 9780715629680 [GB]

Bristol Classical Press. Hardcover. New. 9x6x0. Bristol Classical Press ISBN 0715629689 9780715629680 [US]

United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. Date: 2001. Hardcover. 0715629689 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- Aeschylus’ Persians is not only the first surviving Greek drama. It is also the only tragedy to take for its subject historical rather than mythical events: the repulse of the army of Xerxes at Salamis in 480 B. C. It has frequently been mined for information on the tactics of Salamis or the Greeks’ knowledge of Persian names or institutions, but it also has a broader value, one that has not often been realised. What does it tell us about Greek representations of Persia, or of the Athenians’ self-image? What can we glean from it of the politics of early fifth-century Athens, or of the Athenians’ conception of their empire? How, if at all, can such questions be approached without doing violence to the Persians as a drama? What are the implications of the play for the nature of tragedy? -- REVIEW: "The Emptiness of Asia by Thomas Harrison (Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews) is a literary study of Aeschylus' "Persai" alongside Herodotus' "Histories", which will provide the reader with comprehensive understanding what actually happened at the battle of Salamis and afterwards. A scholarly dissection of political and ...