States of Memory: The Polis, Panhellenism, and the Persian War 1st Edition David C. Yates

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190673540
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190673543
• Author(s): David C. Yates

The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia’s westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the heights of power. From the end of the war almost to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and later the Romans recalled the battles and heroes of this war with unabated zeal. The resulting monuments and narratives have long been used to reconstruct the history of the war itself, but they have only recently begun to be used to explore how the conflict was remembered over time. States of Memory focuses on the initial recollection of the war in the classical period down to the Lamian War (480-322 BCE). Drawing together recent work on memory theory and a wide range of ancient evidence, Yates argues that the Greek memory of the war was deeply divided from the outset. Despite the panhellenic scope of the conflict, the Greeks very rarely recalled the war as Greeks. Instead they presented themselves as members of their respective city-states. What emerged was a tangled web of idiosyncratic stories about the Persian War that competed with each other fiercely throughout the classical period. It was not until Philip of Macedonia and Alexander the Great dealt a devastating blow to the very notion of the independent city-state at the battle of Chaeronea that anything like a unified memory of the Persian War came to dominate the tradition.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: The Serpent Column

Chapter 2: Panhellenism

Chapter 3: Contestation

Chapter 4: Time and Space

Chapter 5: Meaning

Chapter 6: A New Persian War

Chapter 7: After Alexander

Conclusion: The Persian War from Polis to Panhellenism

Bibliography Index

Locorum General Index

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