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Oriens et Occiens: Persianism in Antiquity

By Rolf Strootman

Book information

Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag
Year
2017
ISBN
9783515113823
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8242437 bytes)
Series
Oriens et Occidens, 25
Pages
557\562
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-04-08 08:05:18

Description

The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and later ages. This book is the first to systematically chart these multiform ideas and associations over time and to define them in relation to one another, as Persianism. Hellenistic kings, Parthian monarchs, Romans and Sasanians: they all made a lot of meaning through the evolving concept of "Persia", as the twenty-one papers in this rich volume illustrate at length.Persianism underlies the notion of an East-West dichotomy that still pervades modern political rhetoric. In Antiquity and beyond, however, it also functioned in rather different ways, sometimes even as an alternative to Hellenism.

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