15 research outputs found
Greek Cavalry - I. G. Spence: The Cavalry of Classical Greece. A Social and Military History with Particular Reference to Athens. Pp. xxxvii+346, 2 maps, 16 plates. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Cased. - L. J. Worley: Hippeis. The Cavalry of Ancient Greece. (History and Warfare.) Pp. xiii+241, 27 figs. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, Inc., 1994. Cased, ÂŁ24.95.
No full textCatastrophe Theory - R. Drews: The End of the Bronze Age. Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 b.c.
No full textChapter 2. Changing Patterns of Land-Holding in the South-Western Border Lands of Greater Phrygia in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods
No full text„Korinthischen Stammes sind wir wie Bellerophontes“ – Syrakusaner/innen fern der Heimat
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Moons and Tides in the Battle of Marathon, Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride, and the Sinking of the Titanic
No full textPersianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek art, 380-330 BCE
No full textThe Persians held sway over the Greek imagination for more than 200 years. The image of Persia shifted in that time from xenophobic hostility, caused through fear of the encroaching presence of the Persian empire, through to curious acceptance of its dominance. Much study has been given to the formative decades of the construction of the Persian “Other” in Greek art, but the fourth-century image of Persia has remained relatively unexplored. This paper demonstrates how Greek artists of the period 380–330 BCE fixated on the life and accomplishments of the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings and argues that instead of offering an orientalist clichéd view of Persian life, it attempted to understand and disseminate bone fide Iranian images of court society
The WEIRDest People in the World?: Western Political Grammar, Democracy, and the Semiotic Paradox of Classical Historiography
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