States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War

ISBN-13: 9780190673543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 360 str.

David C. Yates

Recenzje

Using literary sources and inscriptions as well as considerations of monuments and rituals, all underpinned by thorough footnotes and a comprehensive bibliography, Yates steers the reader deftly through the many ancient ways of seeing the Persian Wars. He reveals a kaleidoscope of viewpoints that shift according to political expediency, and reminds us that even historical events about which we think we know so much, far from being written in stone (or inscribed in bronze), have come down to us thanks to selective memories and deliberate distortions. For any serious student of the Persian War(s) this should be standard reading.

O autorze

David Yates is an Associate Professor of Classics at Millsaps College and specializes in the history and historiography of archaic and classical Greece.