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Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity Erich S. Gruen
- Author: Erich S. Gruen
- Publisher: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG
- Original Languages: English
- Book Format: Hardback::314 pages, ePub
- ISBN13: 9783515087353
- File size: 29 Mb
Kurztext 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 After exploring the conceptual question of ethnicity (with Herodotus 8.144 on
