ANCIENT GREECE AND ANCIENT IRAN

Παρουσίαση

IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE AND HONOR for me to welcome, on behalf of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, the publication of the proceedings of the First International Conference on 'Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters'. The conference took place in Athens in November 2006 through the efforts of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO, the National Hellenic Research Foundation, and the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the active participation of the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization.
Supporting cultural activities in our country, the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO sponsored this conference with the conviction that we were contributing to the promotion of multicultural dialogue, which is not only valuable but also imperative.
Since its inception in 1945, UNESCO has been dedicated to the propagation of culture, the promotion of cultural diversity, the expansion of education, the support of science, and the promotion of communication among peoples, with respect for human rights and the values of each civilization and culture. [...] (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
Conference addresses
Introduction
Abbreviations
STEPHEN TRACY
Europe and Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and Homer's Iliad
ANGELIKI PETROPOULOU
The Death of Masistios and the Mourning for his Loss
KYRIAKOS TSANTSANOGLOU
Magi in Athens in the Fifth Century BC?
MASSOUD AZARNOUSH
Hajiabad and the Dialogue of Civilizations
SARA ALINIA
Zoroastrianism and Christianity in the Sasanian Empire (Fourth Century AD)
EVANGELOS VENETIS
Greco-Persian Literary Interactions in Classical Persian Literature
GARTH FOWDEN
Pseudo-Aristotelian Politics and Theology in Universal Islam
MICHAEL N. WEISKOPF
The System Artaphernes-Mardonius as an Example of Imperial Nostalgia
ASKOLD I. IVANTCHIK
Greeks and Iranians in the Cimmerian Bosporus in the Second/First Century BC: New Epigraphic Data from Tanais
CHRISTOPHER TUPLIN
The Seleucids and Their Achaemenid Predecessors: A Persian Inheritance?
G. G. APERGHIS
Managing an Empire - Teacher and Pupil
DAVID STRONACH
The Building Program of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae and the Date of the Fall of Sardis
MOHAMMAD HASSAN TALEBIAN
Persia and Greece: The Role of Cultural Interactions in the Architecture of Persepolis-Pasargadae
MARGARET COOL ROOT
Reading Persepolis in Greek - Part Two: Marriage Metaphors and Unmanly Virtues
OLGA PALAGIA
The Marble of the Penelope from Persepolis and Its Historical Implications
ANTIGONI ZOURNATZI
Cultural Interconnections in the Achaemenid West: A Few Reflections on the Testimony of the Cypriot Archaeological Record
YANNICK LINTZ
Greek, Anatolian, and Persian Iconography in Asia Minor: Material Sources, Method, and Perspectives
LATIFE SUMMERER
Imaging a Tomb Chamber: The Iconographic Program of the Tatarli Wall Paintings
With an Appendix by Alexander von Kienlin
Tatarli Project: Reconstructing a Wooden Tomb Chamber
STAVROS A. PASPALAS
The Achaemenid Lion-Griffin on a Macedonian Tomb Painting and on a Sicyonian Mosaic
DESPINA IGNATIADOU
Psychotropic Plants on Achaemenid Style Vessels
ATHANASIOS SIDERIS
Achaemenid Toreutics in the Greek Periphery
PAVLOS TRIANTAFYLLIDIS
Achaemenid Influences on Rhodian Minor Arts and Crafts
MEHDI RAHBAR
Historical Iranian and Greek Relations in Retrospect
SHAHROKH RAZMJOU
Persia and Greece: A Forgotten History of Cultural Relations
List of Contributors