Название: Xerxes: A Persian Life
Автор: Richard Stoneman
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300180071
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 288
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 25,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486"“465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes' expedition has overshadowed all the other achievements of his twenty-two-year reign.
In this lively and comprehensive new biography, Richard Stoneman shows how Xerxes, despite sympathetic treatment by the contemporary Greek writers Aeschylus and Herodotus, had his reputation destroyed by later Greek writers and by the propaganda of Alexander the Great. Stoneman draws on the latest research in Achaemenid studies and archaeology to present the ruler from the Persian perspective.