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Persianism in Antiquity

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The aim of this conference is to trace the origins of the concept of "Persia" in post-Achaemenid antiquity. It was in the Hellenistic and early Roman Near East that the idea of Persia fully developed. From the second century BCE, a varied cultural style developed that can best be described as "Persianism" -- the appropriation of an idealized past through the re-use or invention of imagery and concepts associated with that past.

Title Persianism in Antiquity / edited by Rolf Strootman and Miguel John Versluys.
Contributors Versnel, H. S. (honouree)
Strootman, Rolf
Versluys, M.J.
Nederlands Instituut in Turkije
Persianism in Antiquity (Colloquium) (2014 : Nederlands Instituut in Turkije)
Publisher Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag
Creation Date c2017
Notes Festschrift, incorporating international conference proceedings.
Dedicated to Professor Henk Versnel, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
"Many of the papers in this book originate from the two-day colloquium Persianism in Antiquity, held at the Netherlands Instititute (NIT) in Turkey, Istanbul, on 24-25 April 2014"--P. [7].
Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-557).
Includes a paper in German.
Content From culture to concept: the reception and appropriation of Persia in antiquity / Rolf Strootman & Miguel John Versluys -- Part I. Persianization, Persomania, Perserie. Being Iranian in antiquity (at home and abroad) / Albert de Jong -- Quoting 'Persia' in Athens / Margaret C. Miller -- 'Open Sesame!' Orientalist fantasy and the Persian Court in Greek art 430--330 BCE / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Once were Persians: The perception of pre-Islamic monuments in Iran from the 16th to the 19th century / Omar Coloru -- Ancient Persianisms in nineteenth-century Iran: the revival of Persepolitan imagery under the Qajars / Judith A. Lerner -- Is there a "Persian high culture"? Critical reflections on the place of ancient Iran in Oswald Spengler's Philosophy of History / David Engels.
Part II. The Hellenistic World. Persianism through Persianization: the case of Ptolemaic Egypt / Damien Agut-Labordère -- Persianism under the early Seleukid Kings? the royal title 'Great King' / Sonja Plischke -- Imperial Persianism: Seleukids, Arsakids and Fratarakā / Rolf Strootman -- Rival images of Iranian kingship and Persian identity in Post-Achaemenid western Asia / Matthew Canepa -- Persianism in the Kingdom of Pontic Kappadokia. The genealogical claims of the Mithridatids / Charlotte Lerouge-Cohen -- Tradition oder Fiktion? Die „persischen" Elemente in den Ausstattungs- programmen Antiochos' I. von Kommagene / Bruno Jacobs -- Memories of Persian rule: constructing history and ideology in Hasmonean Judea / Benedikt Eckhardt.
Part III. Roman and Sasanian perspectives. Persia on their minds: Achaemenid memory horizons in Roman Anatolia / Valeria Sergueenkova & Felipe Rojas -- Persae in spelaeis solem colunt: Mithra(s) between Persia and Rome / Richard Gordon -- The Empire brought back: Persianism in imperial Greek literature / Eran Almagor -- The eternal Persian: Persianism in Ammianus Marcellinus / Michael Sommer -- Cyrus to Arsakes, Ezra to Izates: Parthia and Persianism in Josephus / Richard Fowler -- Ērān ud Anērān: Sasanian patterns of worldview / Josef Wiesehöfer -- The idea of the sacred land of Ērānšahr / Touraj Daryaee -- Persianism: or Achaemenid reminiscences in the Iranian and Iranicate world(s) of antiquity / M. Rahim Shayegan.
Series Alte Geschichte
Oriens et Occidens
25
Extent 557 pages : illustrations, maps
25 cm.
Language English
German
National Library system number 990040500920205171

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