Aeschylus on Darius and Persian Memory

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dc.contributor.authorSampson, C. Michael
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-27T21:58:21Z
dc.date.available2022-01-27T21:58:21Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.date.submitted2022-01-21T20:56:18Zen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers how Aeschylus dramatizes the memory of his Persian characters, and argues that the contradictory recollection of Marathon in Persae reflects an imperial ideology with which failure is incompatible: the dramatis personae frame Xerxes' defeat at Salamis as unprecedented even as they summon Darius as a semi-divine benefactor. With recourse to what historians and anthropologists term “social” or “collective” memory, the paper then considers how such a portrayal of Persian memory would have resonated with an Athenian audience in 472 engaged in democratic debate over the nature of the burgeoning Delian League.en_US
dc.identifier.citationC. Michael Sampson. “Aeschylus on Darius and Persian Memory.” Phoenix 69 (2015): 24–42en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.7834/phoenix.69.1-2.0024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/36227
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherJSTORen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectGreek tragedyen_US
dc.subjectsocial memoryen_US
dc.subjectAeschylusen_US
dc.subjectPersian waren_US
dc.titleAeschylus on Darius and Persian Memoryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
local.author.affiliationFaculty of Artsen_US
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