Imagining Xerxes : ancient perspectives on a Persian king / Emma Bridges.

Author: Bridges, Emma.

ImprintNew York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Descriptionxi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: encountering Xerxes -- Staging Xerxes: Aeschylus and beyond -- Historiographical enquiry: the Herodotean Xerxes-narrative -- Xerxes in his own write? The Persian perspective -- Pride, panhellenism and propaganda: Xerxes in the fourth century bc -- The king at court: alternative (hi)stories of Xerxes -- The past as a paradigm: Xerxes in a world ruled by Rome -- Epilogue: re-imagining Xerxes.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-225) and index.

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