Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC
Subtitle: A Study in Cultural Receptivity
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780521607582
Subjects: Ancient Near East; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Art & Art Instruction; Ancient Greece; Persian Empire; Art; General; History - Ancient & Classical; Art / History / Ancient & Classical; Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431; Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C
First sentence: When Simonides composed his elegy celebrating the Greek victory at Plataia, he compared the Persian with the Trojan Wars.1