Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Xenophon (Ancient Society and History) by Pericles Georges
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0801847346 | 379 pages | PDF | 3,9 MB
"From the beginning of Persian rule in Ionia," writes Pericles Georges, "the Greeks noted the public facts–things that could be seen and talked about, and become the common report. But the Persians for the most part remained a tabula rasa upon which the Greeks drew a portrait in their own idiom that answered to their own imaginative purposes.