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480 BCE. The Persian Attack on Athens and its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece
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In 480 BCE, during their invasion of Greece, the Persians began the destruction of Athens. How has this event shaped our understanding of Greek history? This interdisciplinary volume investigates the commemoration of the attack in Antiquity and how it became anchored in modern scholarship as a watershed dividing Archaic and Classical Greece. Drawing on ancient literature, material culture, including deposits in the Athenian Agora, and reception history, the book explores if and how the destruction of Athens stimulated cultural innovation. By investigating the significance of 480 BCE as a historical anchor for the scholarship on ancient Greece, the volume reopens the discussion on the periodization of Archaic and Classical Greece.
Janric van Rookhuijzen is a researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Following his dissertation entitled Herodotus and the Topography of Xerxes’ Invasion. Place and Memory in Greece and Anatolia (Berlin 2018), he published widely on the archaeology of the Athenian Acropolis.
Josine Blok is professor emeritus in Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University. Her publications include Citizenship in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2017) and, with Irad Malkin, Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2024).
Floris van den Eijnde, lecturer and researcher of Ancient History at Utrecht University, studies religious and cultural interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean world. His work focuses on the rise of the Athenian polis (1200–500 BCE) and the role of sanctuaries in identity formation.
Contributors are: Mathieu de Bakker, Floris van den Eijnde, Federico Figura, Angelika Kellner, André Lardinois, Michael Laughy, Kathleen M. Lynch, Suzanne Marchand, Steve F. Matter, Marion Meyer, Giorgia Proietti, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Susan I. Rotroff, Anja Slawisch, Hans van Wees
Josine Blok is professor emeritus in Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University. Her publications include Citizenship in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2017) and, with Irad Malkin, Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece (Oxford 2024).
Floris van den Eijnde, lecturer and researcher of Ancient History at Utrecht University, studies religious and cultural interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean world. His work focuses on the rise of the Athenian polis (1200–500 BCE) and the role of sanctuaries in identity formation.
Contributors are: Mathieu de Bakker, Floris van den Eijnde, Federico Figura, Angelika Kellner, André Lardinois, Michael Laughy, Kathleen M. Lynch, Suzanne Marchand, Steve F. Matter, Marion Meyer, Giorgia Proietti, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Susan I. Rotroff, Anja Slawisch, Hans van Wees
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures and Tbles
Introduction: The Impact of the Persian Attack on Athens on the Study of Ancient Greece
Janric van Rookhuijzen
1 The Trauma of 480 BCE as an Anchor: The Destruction of the City and the Rebuilding of the Community
Giorgia Proietti
2 After Evacuation and Victory: A Turning Point in the Creation of the Athenian State Burial
Marion Meyer
3 Rewriting History: The Battle of Salamis, 480 BCE
Mathieu de Bakker
4 Ctesias’ Persian History and the Destruction(s) of Ionia
Hans van Wees
5 Herodotus on 480 BCE and the Chronology of Late Archaic Greece
Angelika Kellner
6 480 BCE: The Making of a World-Historical Date
Suzanne Marchand
7 Revisiting the ‘Persian Destruction’ Wells of the Athenian Agora
Michael Laughy and Floris van den Eijnde
8 Persian Destruction Deposits from the Athenian Agora Excavations: Pottery Chronology and its Challenges
Kathleen M. Lynch
9 Another Look at the Stoa Gutter Well
Steve F. Matter and Susan I. Rotroff
10 Revolution or Evolution? Reassessing the Relationship between Vase and Free Painting after 480 BCE
Federico Figura
11 Phokaean Electrum Coinage and Klazomenian Red-Figure Decoration: Or, the Dangers of Overreliance on Athenian Chronologies in Asia Minor
Anja Slawisch
12 480 BCE as a Marker in Greek Literary History
André Lardinois
Index
Preface
List of Figures and Tbles
Introduction: The Impact of the Persian Attack on Athens on the Study of Ancient Greece
Janric van Rookhuijzen
1 The Trauma of 480 BCE as an Anchor: The Destruction of the City and the Rebuilding of the Community
Giorgia Proietti
2 After Evacuation and Victory: A Turning Point in the Creation of the Athenian State Burial
Marion Meyer
3 Rewriting History: The Battle of Salamis, 480 BCE
Mathieu de Bakker
4 Ctesias’ Persian History and the Destruction(s) of Ionia
Hans van Wees
5 Herodotus on 480 BCE and the Chronology of Late Archaic Greece
Angelika Kellner
6 480 BCE: The Making of a World-Historical Date
Suzanne Marchand
7 Revisiting the ‘Persian Destruction’ Wells of the Athenian Agora
Michael Laughy and Floris van den Eijnde
8 Persian Destruction Deposits from the Athenian Agora Excavations: Pottery Chronology and its Challenges
Kathleen M. Lynch
9 Another Look at the Stoa Gutter Well
Steve F. Matter and Susan I. Rotroff
10 Revolution or Evolution? Reassessing the Relationship between Vase and Free Painting after 480 BCE
Federico Figura
11 Phokaean Electrum Coinage and Klazomenian Red-Figure Decoration: Or, the Dangers of Overreliance on Athenian Chronologies in Asia Minor
Anja Slawisch
12 480 BCE as a Marker in Greek Literary History
André Lardinois
Index
This book is of interest to university libraries, researchers, and students in the fields of Classics, Ancient History, (Classical) Archaeology, Art History, and Reception Studies.