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The ‘Persian Wars’: An Alternative Perspective?

Hybrid Lecture | Athens

Leonidas' monument at the Thermopylae (© https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonidas‘_statue.jpg)
»The ‘Persian Wars’: An Alternative Perspective?«

Robert Rollinger | Innsbruck/Wrocław


If we look at the never-ending stream of contributions to the topic by modern scholarship one cannot avoid the conclusion that all modern Histories’ of the ‘Persian Wars’ are still more or less witty and erudite reproductions of Herodotus´ Histories. The basis of this approach is the adamant conviction that Herodotus´ was able (and willing) to separate fact from fiction and that his Histories by and large report what essentially had happened. The lecture tries to demonstrate the serious problems related to such an approach and to propose an alternative way to explore the topic.

 

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Date
29 October, 5 pm CET / 6 pm EET

Location
OeAI Athens (Leoforos Alexandras 26, 106 83 Athens)
For online attendance, please register via zoom

Organiser
OeAW-OeAI

Contact
Efthymios Kakavogiannis
 

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