CLA230H1 Lecture 13: CLA230 Lecture 13 Notes
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Simon hornblower quote modern historian quote: persia gave the greeks their identity, or the means for recognizing it . Aeschylus play the persians is written about 800 years after the battle of. Herodotus historian of the persian wars but written after in the third quarter of the 5th century b. c. Written by aeschylus about eight years after the athenian-persian battle interesting the way the persians themselves are represented very large differences between the persians and the greeks ideology and character. If one of the two is a little humbler, they kiss on the cheek. Persian spirit dream of atossa two women, one persian, the other doric quote: xerxes harnessed them both beneath his chariot and put a yoke- strap beneath their necks. One of them towered proudly in this gear, taking the reins submissively in her mouth, but the other struggled, tore the harness from the chariot with her hands and smashed the yoke in the middle.
