How Long to Read Imagining Xerxes

How Long Does it Take to Read Imagining Xerxes?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 1 minute to read Imagining Xerxes by Emma Bridges

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court. Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition. Analysing these diverse representations of Xerxes, this title explores the reception of a key figure in the ancient world and the reinvention of his image in a remarkable array of cultural and historical contexts.

How long is Imagining Xerxes?

Imagining Xerxes by Emma Bridges is 349 pages long, and a total of 90,391 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Imagining Xerxes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 13 minutes to read Imagining Xerxes aloud.

What Reading Level is Imagining Xerxes?

Imagining Xerxes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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