A new exhibition titled “Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece,” on view at the British Museum through August 13, reexamines that stale, Orientalist worldview. Instead, ...

The evolution of the term "barbarian" in ancient Greek thought—from cultural outsider to a symbol of uncivilized otherness—is ...

“Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece” features gold, silver, and glass examples of Persian craft from the British Museum’s collection alongside some spectacular loans. It also showcases the ...

THE only thing which could possibly justify any writer in presenting at this date a new version of the wonderful drama acted by Greeks and Persians on land and sea in the years 480-479 B. C. would ...

The British Museum’s “Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece” shows the power of ancient Persian style, and how it influenced Persia’s Greek antagonists as they too gained a taste for empire.

This last source assigns 40,000 Greeks to face 60,000 Persians. In any case, the Greek fleet was mainly Laconian, as tensions had re-emerged with the Athenians, leading them to withdraw their units to ...

Luxury & Power: Persia to Greece notes that while Greek writers may have denounced Persian displays of luxury, equating them with decadence following the Greco-Persian wars, ...

King Darius of Persia demands Greek Submission. In September of the year 490, the Persian forces landed at the sandy harbour of Marathon with an invasion force of 600 ships, 20,000 or more foot ...

Archaeologists discovered the hoard of Persian coins at the site of ancient Greek city in what is now Turkey. The money may have been intended to pay mercenary troops. The ancient Greek city of ...

There is, throughout, running commentary from Greek sources on the Persians whom, on the one hand, they despise as effeminates whose kings walk under parasols and wear eye kohl, and on the other ...