Silk purses and sows’ ears: Thebans, Boeotians, and the second Persian invasion 480-479 BCE

• Samuel D. Gartland ^[1]
  1. [1] Corpus Christi College, Oxford
• Localización: Hermathena, ISSN 0018-0750, Nº. 204-205, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Elite responses to the rise of Achaemenid Persia), págs. 41-63
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Theban interaction with Persia is routinely described in pejorative terms: Medism was a betrayal of Greece and the Greeks, and Thebes was mediser-inchief. There has been too little effort spent on trying to understand the modalities of this interactivity. How did the relationship between Thebes and Persia function and develop? How did it compare to other communities whom the Persians encountered and with whom they cooperated? How did the Boeotian and wider central Greek context for this interaction affect and inform it? Politics, elite culture, and geography are all important, and this essay hopes to make a contribution to understanding Theban flexibility and adaptability in making friends.