Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars

Abstract

This book addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early 5th century bc. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the reception of this period of history, extending from the wars' immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in literature and thought both in antiquity and in the post-Renaissance world.

Review Article: Recent Travels in Alexanderland

“…35 As is clear from a comparison of recent scholarly discussions of the reception of the two conflicts, unless this reflects the different attitudes of the editors. The issue of East vs West is essentially invisible in an edited volume on Oliver Stone's Alexander (Cartledge and Greenland (2010)), while it is a consistent theme in one on the Persian Wars based on a conference of 2003 (Bridges et al (2007) see especially 9-10).…”