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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars$
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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium

Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P. J. Rhodes

Print publication date: 2007

Print ISBN-13: 9780199279678

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279678.001.0001

Introduction

Chapter:
(p. 3 ) 1 Introduction
Source:
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars
Author(s):

Emma Bridges

Edith Hall (Contributor Webpage)

P. J. Rhodes (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279678.003.0001

This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the purpose of the book, which is to throw the maximum possible fresh light on both the consistency of certain themes within the reception of the actual battles of the Persian Wars and the diversity of the ways in which they have been treated. It outlines the actual events that led to the Persian Wars. An overview of the subsequent chapters is presented.

Keywords:   Persian Wars, Greeks, Persians

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