%0 Conference Proceeding %0 Book %E Strootman, Rolf %E Strootman, Rolf %E Versluys, Miguel John %E Versluys, Miguel John %I Franz Steiner Verlag %D 2017 %C Stuttgart %G English %G German %B Oriens et occidens %@ 9783515113823 %T Persianism in antiquity %U http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=cc6f6453665c478c8262228583c8d96b&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm %U http://d-nb.info/1122125917/04 %U https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-27467 %U https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz876060157rez.htm %U http://www.sehepunkte.de/2019/07/30421.html %X The aim of this conference is to trace the origins of the concept of "Persia" in post-Achaemenid antiquity. It was in the Hellenistic and early Roman Near East that the idea of Persia fully developed. From the second century BCE, a varied cultural style developed that can best be described as "Persianism" -- the appropriation of an idealized past through the re-use or invention of imagery and concepts associated with that past