Pericles Georges, "Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Xenophon"
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0801847346 | PDF | pages: 378 | 3,8 mb
From the beginning of Persian rule in Ionia," writes Pericles Georges, "the Greeks noted the public facts--things that could be seen and talked about, and become the common report. But the Persians for the most part remained a tabula rasa upon which the Greeks drew a portrait in their own idiom that answered to their own imaginative purposes. This portrait was the more easily drawn because the Persians projected themselves to the Greeks largely in Greek terms. As they conquered the various peoples of their empire, the Persians uniformly defined themselves and their motives in the language and imagery of their subjects.
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