In search of Xerxes : images of the Persian king
The figure of Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, is known to us primarily through Greek sources and the western inheritors of the Greek tradition. Little Persian evidence from Xerxes' reign survives and our perceptions are, therefore, informed by the image of the king constr...
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Durham University
2004
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398491 |