Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff Univer Professor of Ancient History

Broschiertes Buch

King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE

Beschreibung

This book explores the representation of Persian monarchy and the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and through the sometimes distorted prism of Classical authors.

Autor

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University and a specialist in the histories and cultures of ancient Iran and Greece. He also works on dress and gender in antiquity and on the ancient world in popular culture, especially Hollywood cinema. He is the author of Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World, Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece, King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE and Ctesias' History of Persia. He is editor of Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras, Creating a Hellenistic World and The Hellenistic Court as well as numerous articles on Greek and Persian culture. He is the series editor of Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia and co-series editor of Screening Antiquity.

Produktdetails

• Debates and Documents in Ancient History
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780748641253
• ISBN-10: 0748641254
• Artikelnr.: 36559624