CULTURAL RESPONSES TO THE PERSIAN WARS. Antiquity to the Third Millennium.

Third printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With 40 black and white illustrations throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh. The fore-edge of the closed text block with a few scuffs and a light finger mark. The contents, with several unopened pages (297-304), are clean throughout and without inscriptions and stamps. Complete with the bright and fresh dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

'This book explores various possible reasons for the abiding cultural presence of [the Persian Wars], by bringing together sixteen interdisciplinary essays on different types of response, from their immediate impact on ancient Greek history to their reception in contemporary media' (publisher's blurb).