Strootman / Versluys Persianism in Antiquity

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-515-11386-1
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 25, 557 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Oriens et Occidens

The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and later ages. This e-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 through the evolving concept of "Persia", as the twenty-one papers in this rich volume illustrate at length.Persianism underlies the notion of an East-West dichotomy that still pervades modern political rhetoric. In Antiquity and beyond, however, it also functioned in rather different ways, sometimes even as an alternative to Hellenism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strootman, Rolf

Versluys, Miguel John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Acknowledgments;8
3;Rolf Strootman & Miguel John Versluys:From Culture to Concept: The Reception and Appropriation of Persiain Antiquity;10
4;Part I: Persianization, Persomania, Perserie;34
4.1;Albert de Jong:Being Iranian in Antiquity (at Home and Abroad);36
4.2;Margaret C. Miller:Quoting ‘Persia’ in Athens;50
4.3;Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones:‘Open Sesame!’ Orientalist Fantasy and the Persian Court in GreekArt 430–330 BCE;70
4.4;Omar Coloru:Once were Persians: The Perception of Pre-Islamic Monuments in Iranfrom the 16th to the 19th Century;88
4.5;Judith A. Lerner:Ancient Persianisms in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Revivalof Persepolitan Imagery under the Qajars;108
4.6;David Engels:Is there a “Persian High Culture”? Critical Reflections on the Placeof Ancient Iran in Oswald Spengler’s Philosophy of History;122
5;Part II: The Hellenistic World;146
5.1;Damien Agut-Labordère:Persianism through Persianization: The Case of Ptolemaic Egypt;148
5.2;Sonja Plischke: Persianism under the early Seleukid Kings? The Royal Title ‘Great King’;164
5.3;Rolf Strootman:Imperial Persianism: Seleukids, Arsakids and Fratarak?;178
5.4;Matthew Canepa:Rival Images of Iranian Kingship and Persian Identity in Post-AchaemenidWestern Asia;202
5.5;Charlotte Lerouge-Cohen:Persianism in the Kingdom of Pontic Kappadokia The Genealogical Claimsof the Mithridatids;224
5.6;Bruno Jacobs:Tradition oder Fiktion? Die „persischen“ Elemente in den AusstattungsprogrammenAntiochos’ I von Kommagene;236
5.7;Benedikt Eckhardt:Memories of Persian Rule: Constructing History and Ideology inHasmonean Judea;250
6;Part III: Roman and Sasanian Perspectives;268
6.1;Valeria Sergueenkova & Felipe Rojas:Persia on their Minds: Achaemenid Memory Horizons in Roman Anatolia;270
6.2;Richard Gordon:Persae in spelaeis solem colunt: Mithra(s) between Persia and Rome;290
6.3;Eran Almagor:The Empire brought back: Persianism in Imperial Greek Literature;328
6.4;Michael Sommer:The Eternal Persian: Persianism in Ammianus Marcellinus;346
6.5;Richard Fowler:Cyrus to Arsakes, Ezra to Izates: Parthia and Persianism in Josephus;356
6.6;Josef Wiesehöfer:?r?n ud An?r?n: Sasanian Patterns of Worldview;382
6.7;Touraj Daryaee:The Idea of the Sacred Land of ?r?nšahr;394
6.8;M. Rahim Shayegan:Persianism: Or Achaemenid Reminiscences in the Iranianand Iranicate World(s) of Antiquity;402
6.9;Abbreviations;458
6.10;Bibliography;460

Über Autor(innen)

Versluys, Miguel John
Miguel John Versluys is Professor and Chair of Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University. His research focusses on the nature and impact of Globalisation processes in the Hellenistic-Roman world.

Strootman, Rolf
Rolf Strootman is Associate Professor of History at Utrecht University. He studies imperial ideology, court culture and monarchical ritual in premodern empires. His current research project, "Royal Roads: The First World Empires and the Integration of Central Eurasia", examines how the mobile royal court created trans-cultural connectivity in the Achaemenid and Seleukid empires.