Luxury And Power: Persia To Greece James Fraser British Museum Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

Luxurious Objects Are Celebrated For Their Exoticism Rarity And Style But Also Disparaged As Indulgent Extravagant Corrupt The Ancient Origins Of These Attitudes Emerged At Boundary Between Imperial Persian Democratic Athenian Greek Worlds Luxury Was Centre Royal Court Behaviours Ostentatious Display Rippled Through Provinces Whose Elite Classes Emulated In Lesser Materials Is Contrastingly Depicted Eyes - Within Philosophical Context Early Codes Historical Greco-Persian Wars Which Suddenly Spectacularly Brought Eastern Luxuries Into Imagination Populace First Time While Writers Rejected Despotic Adopted Imaginative Ways To Signal Status Distinction Prestige Under Macedonian Empire Alexander Great Its Subsequent Kingdoms Achaemenid Culture Would Later Be Displayed By Local Across Middle Worlds: Were A Means Seek Advantage New Hellenistic World Order Ultimately This Publication Demonstrates How Competing Political Spins Woven Around 2 500 Years Ago Still Continue Shape Modern Perceptions Today Σελίδες: 240 Έτος Έκδοσης: 2023 Διαστάσεις: 18 9X18 9Cm