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Persianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek art, 380-330 BCE

Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-1964 2017. Persianisms: the Achaemenid Court in Greek art, 380-330 BCE. Iranian Studies 50 (6) , pp. 765-786. 10.1080/00210862.2016.1268379

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Abstract

The Persians held sway over the Greek imagination for more than 200 years. The image of Persia shifted in that time from xenophobic hostility, caused through fear of the encroaching presence of the Persian empire, through to curious acceptance of its dominance. Much study has been given to the formative decades of the construction of the Persian “Other” in Greek art, but the fourth-century image of Persia has remained relatively unexplored. This paper demonstrates how Greek artists of the period 380–330 BCE fixated on the life and accomplishments of the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings and argues that instead of offering an orientalist clichéd view of Persian life, it attempted to understand and disseminate bone fide Iranian images of court society.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: History, Archaeology and Religion
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN: 0021-0862
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 13:29
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/103794

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