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Drawing on the speaker’s recent book, Persia’s Greek Campaigns (Oxford, 2025), this talk will review disciplinary progress and emerging evidence which now permits critical historical approaches to Achaemenid contexts and perspectives on Persian-Greek conflicts.
Beate Pongratz-Leisten’s book Myth, Text, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought.
This presentation considers the historical circumstances which gave rise to the negative stereotypes about the Persians reflected in ancient Greek sources.
