The Emptiness of Asia [1 ed.] 0715629689

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The Emptiness of Asia [1 ed.]
0715629689

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Thomas Harrison

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1. Framing the play

1. Aeschylus the historian?
2. Politics and partisanship
3. Aeschylus, Atossa and Athenian ideology

Part II. Finding Athens

4. The use and abuse of Persia
5. Where is Athens?
6. Athens and Greece
7. The emptiness of Asia
8. Democracy and tyranny

Part III. Conclusions

9. Themistocles and Aristides
10. Athens and Persia

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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