THE EYESORE OF AIGINA by Katerina Meidani (Editor), Anton Powell (Editor) ( 9781905125593 )

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THE EYESORE OF AIGINA
ANTI-ATHENIAN ATTITUDES ACROSS THE GREEK, HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN WORLDS

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Katerina Meidani (Editor), Anton Powell (Editor)

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CLASSICAL PRESS OF WALES

Pub. date:

15 May, 2016

Pages:

275

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This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.

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Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.

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