The Greek campaign of the Persian Great King Xerxes I has not yet been analysed from a consistently eastern perspective. The inscription of Xerxes from Persepolis XPl provides a methodological basis for this as a guide to an Achaemenid programme. The reassessment of the Greek campaign on the basis of this inscription is neither a corrective to existing research nor an attempt to reconstruct the campaign comprehensively in terms of events or military history. Rather, Hilmar Klinkott uses it as a key to understanding completely different, grand-royal accents, objectives and evaluations, which thus also characterise the overall picture of the campaign. For in contrast to the Greek perspective, the endeavour was a success for Xerxes in certain respects.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Klinkott, Hilmar
Title
Xerxes. Der Großkönig in Griechenland
Details
Paperback, 6 illustrations. 272 pages.
State
new
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