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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.
Price: $140.00
Pages: 358
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation
Publication Date:
09 December 2025
ISBN: 9789004745544
Format: Hardcover
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