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Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Contributors xii Note on Abbreviations xvi SECTION I. ARCHETYPAL THEME 1 Introduction 3 Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P. J. Rhodes 2 The Impact of the Persian Wars on Classical Greece 31 P. J. Rhodes 3 Xerxes' Homer 47 Johannes Haubold 4 The View from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars 65 Deborah Boedeker SECTION II. ANCIENT VARIATIONS 5 Plato and the Persian Wars 85 Christopher Rowe 6 The Persian Wars in Fourth-Century Oratory and Historiography 105 John Marincola 7 Images of the Persian Wars in Rome 127 Philip Hardie 8 De malignitate Plutarchi: Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian Wars 145 Christopher Pelling SECTION III. RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT REDISCOVERY 9 Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman Empire to Saddam Hussein 167 Edith Hall 10 Operatic Variations on an Incident at the Hellespont 201 David Kimbell 11 ¿Shrines of the Mighty¿: Rediscovering the Battlefields of the Persian Wars 231 Ian Macgregor Morris SECTION IV. NATIONHOOD AND IDENTITY 12 From Marathon to Waterloo: Byron, Battle Monuments, and the Persian Wars 267 Tim Rood 13 Enacting History and Patriotic Myth: Aeschylus' Persians on the Eve of the Greek War of Independence 299 Gonda Van Steen 14 The Persian Wars as the ¿Origin¿ of Historiography: Ancient and Modern Orientalism in George Grote's History of Greece 331 Alexandra Lianeri 15 ¿People like us¿ in the Face of History: Cormon's Les Vainquers de Salamine 355 Clemence Schultze SECTION V. LEONIDAS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 16 Xerxes Goes to Hollywood 383 David Levene 17 The Guts and the Glory: Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of Fire 405 Emma Bridges Index 423
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Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Literature and the wars.
Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. -- Art and the wars.