Richard Stoneman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300180077
- eISBN:
- 9780300216042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300180077.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter focuses on Xerxes's invasion of Greece, with Athens as his main target. Xerxes remained confident despite the battering of his fleet and his considerable losses at Thermopylae. Training ...
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This chapter focuses on Xerxes's invasion of Greece, with Athens as his main target. Xerxes remained confident despite the battering of his fleet and his considerable losses at Thermopylae. Training his sights on the hated city of Athens, Xerxes led his army in sweeping through Phocis and destroyed and plundered the sanctuary of Apollo at Abae. The destruction of sanctuaries was one of the most shocking memories that the Greeks held of the Persian invasion. This chapter examines the Battle of Salamis, which proved to be the savior of the Greeks, as well as Mardonius's campaign, the Battle of Plataea, and the Greeks' war of attrition against Persian positions on the coast of Asia Minor. It also considers the impact of the Greek campaign on Xerxes's ambition to extend the Persian Empire further east.Less
This chapter focuses on Xerxes's invasion of Greece, with Athens as his main target. Xerxes remained confident despite the battering of his fleet and his considerable losses at Thermopylae. Training his sights on the hated city of Athens, Xerxes led his army in sweeping through Phocis and destroyed and plundered the sanctuary of Apollo at Abae. The destruction of sanctuaries was one of the most shocking memories that the Greeks held of the Persian invasion. This chapter examines the Battle of Salamis, which proved to be the savior of the Greeks, as well as Mardonius's campaign, the Battle of Plataea, and the Greeks' war of attrition against Persian positions on the coast of Asia Minor. It also considers the impact of the Greek campaign on Xerxes's ambition to extend the Persian Empire further east.
Vivienne J. Gray
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693979
- eISBN:
- 9780191745324
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693979.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter takes the two stories that Herodotus tells about the mythical seer, Melampus. It explains how his treatment combines his heritage of inquiry, poetry, and storytelling, and in the process ...
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This chapter takes the two stories that Herodotus tells about the mythical seer, Melampus. It explains how his treatment combines his heritage of inquiry, poetry, and storytelling, and in the process creates new myth. Herodotus displays his historical inquiry in the passage in which he has Melampus introduce the rites of Dionysus into Greece from Egypt, but also creates or develops the pattern of story in which the ‘culture hero’ introduces new customs into Greece. He develops the use of Melampus by the poets as an exemplum in his account of the battle of Plataea, where in order to enhance the greatness of that battle, he compares the request of the seer Tisamenos for Spartan citizenship as a reward for his service in the battle to Melampus' request for Argive kingship as a reward for curing their women; but he also patterns his story according to the traditional motif of the bargain, bringing Melampus into the world of the storyteller.Less
This chapter takes the two stories that Herodotus tells about the mythical seer, Melampus. It explains how his treatment combines his heritage of inquiry, poetry, and storytelling, and in the process creates new myth. Herodotus displays his historical inquiry in the passage in which he has Melampus introduce the rites of Dionysus into Greece from Egypt, but also creates or develops the pattern of story in which the ‘culture hero’ introduces new customs into Greece. He develops the use of Melampus by the poets as an exemplum in his account of the battle of Plataea, where in order to enhance the greatness of that battle, he compares the request of the seer Tisamenos for Spartan citizenship as a reward for his service in the battle to Melampus' request for Argive kingship as a reward for curing their women; but he also patterns his story according to the traditional motif of the bargain, bringing Melampus into the world of the storyteller.
