Myth, Ethos and Actuality
David Castriota
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992
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5th-century Athenian artists depicted their defeated enemies, the Persians, as barbaric mythic antagonists, while representing themselves as mythical heroes. Castriota interprets these works as vehicles of an official ideology, celebrating and justifying the present in terms of the past.
- ISBN-13
- 9780299133542
- ISBN-10
- 0299133540
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Year
- 1992
- Publication date
- 1992-12-30
- Pages
- 320
- Dimensions
- 231x155x19
- Weight
- 475