Luxury and power
Persia to Greece
$56.69
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
20 July 2023
Summary
An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600 and 200 BCE.
Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. L…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780714111964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0714111961 |
| Author: | James Fraser, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Henry Bishop-Wright |
| Publisher: | British Museum Press |
| Imprint: | British Museum Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 189mm x 246mm |
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Critics Review
“Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, the British Museum’s stunning new exhibition, spans ancient Iran, Athens and the reign of Alexander the Great.”– “Sphere Magazine”
“Luxuriously illustrated… Luxury and Power challenges the Western narrative that presents Persian rulers as opulent despots and instead invokes archaeology, architecture, and literature to demonstrate that the Greeks both appreciated and adapted Persian modes of luxury and power into their own repertoire.”– “Asian Review of Books”
“Shaping up to be one of the British Museum’s most crowd-pleasing exhibitions in many years, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece is the story of exquisitely-crafted works in gold, silver and glass…”– “Radio 3 (BBC)”
James Fraser
James Fraser is Curator: Ancient Levant and Anatolia, Department of the Middle East, British Museum and Curator of the exhibition Power and prestige: Cyrus to Alexander at the British Museum in 2023.
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor in Ancient History at Cardiff University and Director of the Ancient Iran Program for the British Institute of Persian Studies. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (2022).
Henry Bishop-Wright is Project Curator of the exhibition Power and prestige: Cyrus to Alexander at the British Museum in 2023.
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