‘Greeks’ and ‘Greece’ in Mesopotamian and Persian Perspectives (J.L Myres Memorial Lectures)

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On this lecture, delivered at New College, Oxford, at the 7th of Would possibly, 2001, Kuhrt considers the question of perceptions: the problems inherent in seeking to define what the people of the ‘east’ will have thought of Greeks at different periods in history. She makes a speciality of the period between the 8th and the 3rd centuries BC, when the ‘known world’ used to be dominated, successively, by the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid Persian and Hellenistic Macedonian empires. She outlines the political changes in these empires, the evidence for Greek social and political interactions with them, and considers the role that ‘Greeks’ were allotted of their respective visions of the geographic world. The evidence is made up of allusions in formal, public royal proclamations, brief references in chronicles, king-lists, diaries and scholarly texts and the appearance of Greeks in quite a lot of administrative and business documents.

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