Luxury And Power Persia To Greece

从波斯到希腊的奢华与权力

出版社 ‏ : ‎ British Museum (2023年6月1日)

语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语

精装 ‏ : ‎ 224页

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714111961

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714111964

商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 1.07 Kilograms

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内容简介

奢侈品因其异国情调、稀有性和风格而受到赞誉，但也被贬低为放纵、奢侈和堕落。这些态度的古代渊源出现在波斯帝国和雅典希腊民主世界的边界。奢侈品是波斯皇室宫廷的中心，炫耀性展示的行为在帝国各省蔓延开来，各省的精英阶层都在效仿材质较差的奢侈品。但是，通过雅典人的眼睛对奢侈品进行了对比性的描述--在早期民主法规的哲学背景下，以及希腊-波斯战争的历史背景下，这些战争突然间将东方的奢侈品带入雅典人的想象中。虽然希腊作家认为奢侈品是东方的、专制的和腐败的，但雅典的精英们却以富有想象力的方式采用了波斯的奢侈品来表示地位、区别和声望。在亚历山大大帝的马其顿帝国及其后续王国的统治下，皇家阿契美尼德的奢侈文化后来被马其顿和当地精英在希腊和中东世界采用和展示：炫耀性的行为是在新的希腊化世界秩序中寻求优势的一种手段。最终，本出版物展示了2500年前编织的竞争性政治旋涡如何在今天继续塑造现代人对奢侈品的看法。

目录

前言

序言

1. 像国王一样大吃大喝：阿契美尼德波斯的奢侈品 - 劳埃德-卢埃林-琼斯

2. 有罪的快乐：古典雅典的奢侈--詹姆斯-弗雷泽

3. 亚历山大帝国及其继承王国的权力和威望--亨利-毕晓普-赖特

注释和书目

鸣谢、图片来源和索引

Luxurious objects are celebrated for their exoticism, rarity and style, but also disparaged as indulgent, extravagant and corrupt. The ancient origins of these attitudes emerged at the boundary between the imperial Persian and democratic Athenian Greek worlds. Luxury was at the center of the royal Persian court and behaviors of ostentatious display rippled through the imperial provinces, whose elite classes emulated luxury objects in lesser materials. But luxury is contrastingly depicted through Athenian eyes – within the philosophical context of early democratic codes and the historical context of the Greco-Persian Wars, which suddenly and spectacularly brought eastern luxuries into the imagination of the Athenian populace for the first time. While Greek writers rejected luxury as eastern, despotic and corrupt, the Athenian elite adopted Persian luxuries in imaginative ways to signal status, distinction and prestige. Under the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great and its subsequent kingdoms, royal Achaemenid luxury culture would later be adopted and displayed by the Macedonian and local elite across the Greek and Middle Eastern worlds: behaviors of ostentatious display were a means to seek advantage in the new Hellenistic world order. Ultimately, this publication demonstrates how competing political spins woven around 2,500 years ago still continue to shape modern perceptions of luxury today.

Table of Contents

Forewords

Introduction

1. Feasting like kings: luxury in Achaemenid Persia — Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

2. Guilty pleasures: luxury in classical Athens — James Fraser

3. Power and prestige in Alexander’s empire and its successor kingdoms — Henry Bishop-Wright

Notes and bibliography

Acknowledgements, picture credits and index