David C Yates
Biographic Data
| ID | 1219004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Yates |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Yates |
| SIGNATURE | YATES D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Millsaps College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Persian wars, memory of
The Persian wars were among the most remembered events in the ancient world and formed an important component of Greek and later Roman collective memory. From the beginning of Persia's intervention in the Greek world to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and Romans produced numerous commemorations that incorporated some recollection of these events. These commemorations could vary considerably and were constantly evolving. The victorious Greek stat…
Persia and Greece
Ephorus and Alexander the Great (FGrHist 70 F 223)
Scholars have long maintained that Ephorus began work on the Histories in the middle years of the fourth century, and so place its genesis and most of its composition before the reign of Alexander the Great. A fragment that mentions Alexander’s crossing into Asia (FGrHist 70 F 223) has long been dismissed, but this article argues that it accurately reflects the content of the Histories and most likely appeared in Book 1, which suggests that Ephor…
The Conquest of Ruins
Hell (=H) sets out to examine the long tradition of recalling and reproducing images of Rome in Western Europe, a phenomenon she calls neo-Roman mimesis. Throughout this study, she argues that "all these acts of neo-Roman mimesis and the imperial imaginaries that they engendered have one thing in common: they revolve around what I call the scenario of imperial ruin gazing, a scopic scenario visualizing the end of the Roman Empire" (2). This obses…
The Serpent Column
Chapter 1 demonstrates the dominance of the polis in the Greek memory of the Persian War in the classical period through a detailed examination of a single monument, the Serpent Column. This dedication, the largest and most spectacular erected by the victors, became an instant source of controversy when Pausanias the regent inscribed on the monument that he had won the war as the “leader of the Greeks.” This chapter argues that the dispute over t…
After Alexander
Chapter 7 offers a brief look ahead to the afterlife of the panhellenic tradition invented by Philip and Alexander the Great, demonstrating that the self-interested propaganda of the Macedonian kings soon became the dominant narrative of the Persian War in the early hellenistic period. The city-states that had actually participated in the war did maintain their local traditions, but those traditions now evolved within a larger hellenistic world t…
Panhellenism
Chapter 2 demonstrates that the Greek memory of the Persian War was centered on the polis throughout the classical period, by showing that very few Persian-War monuments from that period ever transcended the conceptual boundaries of the separate states. Specifically, Yates examines the other monuments erected by the Hellenic League (especially the statues of Apollo at Delphi and Zeus at Olympia), Simonides’s Plataea Elegy, the cult of Zeus Eleuth…
Meaning
This chapter builds on Chapter 4 and examines whether the Greeks assigned the same basic meaning to the war. It includes three comparative case studies, each of which pairs popular narratives in Athens with others exampled in Plataea, Megara, and Corinth. Each reveals significant differences in the meaning assigned to the war in these states. The chapter additionally examines the motives that lay behind these idiosyncratic recollections of the wa…
A New Persian War
Chapter 6 argues that the dominance of the polis in the recollection of the Persian War was challenged after the battle of Chaeronea when Philip and Alexander invented a Persian-War tradition to which all Greeks could stake a claim, regardless of their actual Persian-War service. The chapter begins with some of the Macedonians’ most conspicuous Persian-War commemorations and then considers three contemporary rejections of their invented tradition…
Conclusion
In 340/39 the Athenian orator Aeschines, then serving as a delegate to the Delphic Amphictyony, defended the propriety of a Persian-War monument that the Athenians had recently dedicated at Delphi. The charge was brought by the Amphissians, but Aeschines saw clearly enough that the Thebans were lurking behind the accusation. The monument, a set of golden shields installed on the temple of Apollo, proclaimed that the Athenians had defeated the Per…
Time and Space
This chapter considers the extent of the differences that emerged between various state memories of the Persian War, focusing here on the basic framing questions of when the war occurred and where. Despite drawing on the same chronicle of events, the Greeks developed various answers. Yates begins by examining four extended narratives that address these questions of periodization and spatialization directly: Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato’s Menexenu…
States of Memory
The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia’s westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the heights of power. From the end of the war almost to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and later the Romans recalled the battles and heroes of this war with unabated zeal. The resulting monuments and narratives have long been used to elucidate the history of the war itself, …
The Tradition of the Hellenic League against Xerxes
In this paper the author demonstrates that the earlier and later sources for the Hellenic League understood that alliance quite differently. The later authorities depict a cohesive and durable organization managed by a powerful common council, while Herodotus and Thucydides present a more tenuous and temporary alliance that was largely dependent on Sparta. These versions are often combined in historical reconstructions, but the significant differ…
The Persian War as Civil War in Plataea’s Temple of Athena Areia
Differences in the Persian-War tradition have often been noted, but there remains a general assumption that those differences were limited to self-interested quibbling within a commonly accepted narrative of the war. In this paper I argue that divergences in the Persian-War tradition went much deeper. In the decades immediately after the war’s end, the various city-states were producing commemorations of the Persian War that in some instances cou…
The Role of Cato the Younger in Caesar’s Bellum Civile
This paper demonstrates that Caesar treats Cato with much more restraint in his Bellum Civile than is commonly thought. Cato appears only three times and, although the overall portrayal is far from positive, Caesar consistently shields him from much worse. The reason for this relatively mild presentation has less to do with Cato than Pompey. Caesar, despite his personal animosity toward Cato, decides to use his implacable foe to voice a devastati…
The Archaic Treaties between the Spartans and their Allies
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The Tradition of the Hellenic League against Xerxes
In this paper the author demonstrates that the earlier and later sources for the Hellenic League understood that alliance quite differently. The later authorities depict a cohesive and durable organization managed by a powerful common council, while Herodotus and Thucydides present a more tenuous and temporary alliance that was largely dependent on Sparta. These versions are often combined in historical reconstructions, but the significant differ…
The Persian War as Civil War in Plataea’s Temple of Athena Areia
Differences in the Persian-War tradition have often been noted, but there remains a general assumption that those differences were limited to self-interested quibbling within a commonly accepted narrative of the war. In this paper I argue that divergences in the Persian-War tradition went much deeper. In the decades immediately after the war’s end, the various city-states were producing commemorations of the Persian War that in some instances cou…
The Archaic Treaties between the Spartans and their Allies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Conquest of Ruins
Hell (=H) sets out to examine the long tradition of recalling and reproducing images of Rome in Western Europe, a phenomenon she calls neo-Roman mimesis. Throughout this study, she argues that "all these acts of neo-Roman mimesis and the imperial imaginaries that they engendered have one thing in common: they revolve around what I call the scenario of imperial ruin gazing, a scopic scenario visualizing the end of the Roman Empire" (2). This obses…
States of Memory
The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia’s westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the heights of power. From the end of the war almost to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and later the Romans recalled the battles and heroes of this war with unabated zeal. The resulting monuments and narratives have long been used to elucidate the history of the war itself, …
The Archaic Treaties between the Spartans and their Allies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Role of Cato the Younger in Caesar’s Bellum Civile
This paper demonstrates that Caesar treats Cato with much more restraint in his Bellum Civile than is commonly thought. Cato appears only three times and, although the overall portrayal is far from positive, Caesar consistently shields him from much worse. The reason for this relatively mild presentation has less to do with Cato than Pompey. Caesar, despite his personal animosity toward Cato, decides to use his implacable foe to voice a devastati…
The Persian War as Civil War in Plataea’s Temple of Athena Areia
Differences in the Persian-War tradition have often been noted, but there remains a general assumption that those differences were limited to self-interested quibbling within a commonly accepted narrative of the war. In this paper I argue that divergences in the Persian-War tradition went much deeper. In the decades immediately after the war’s end, the various city-states were producing commemorations of the Persian War that in some instances cou…
The Tradition of the Hellenic League against Xerxes
In this paper the author demonstrates that the earlier and later sources for the Hellenic League understood that alliance quite differently. The later authorities depict a cohesive and durable organization managed by a powerful common council, while Herodotus and Thucydides present a more tenuous and temporary alliance that was largely dependent on Sparta. These versions are often combined in historical reconstructions, but the significant differ…
The Serpent Column
Chapter 1 demonstrates the dominance of the polis in the Greek memory of the Persian War in the classical period through a detailed examination of a single monument, the Serpent Column. This dedication, the largest and most spectacular erected by the victors, became an instant source of controversy when Pausanias the regent inscribed on the monument that he had won the war as the “leader of the Greeks.” This chapter argues that the dispute over t…
After Alexander
Chapter 7 offers a brief look ahead to the afterlife of the panhellenic tradition invented by Philip and Alexander the Great, demonstrating that the self-interested propaganda of the Macedonian kings soon became the dominant narrative of the Persian War in the early hellenistic period. The city-states that had actually participated in the war did maintain their local traditions, but those traditions now evolved within a larger hellenistic world t…
Panhellenism
Chapter 2 demonstrates that the Greek memory of the Persian War was centered on the polis throughout the classical period, by showing that very few Persian-War monuments from that period ever transcended the conceptual boundaries of the separate states. Specifically, Yates examines the other monuments erected by the Hellenic League (especially the statues of Apollo at Delphi and Zeus at Olympia), Simonides’s Plataea Elegy, the cult of Zeus Eleuth…
Meaning
This chapter builds on Chapter 4 and examines whether the Greeks assigned the same basic meaning to the war. It includes three comparative case studies, each of which pairs popular narratives in Athens with others exampled in Plataea, Megara, and Corinth. Each reveals significant differences in the meaning assigned to the war in these states. The chapter additionally examines the motives that lay behind these idiosyncratic recollections of the wa…
A New Persian War
Chapter 6 argues that the dominance of the polis in the recollection of the Persian War was challenged after the battle of Chaeronea when Philip and Alexander invented a Persian-War tradition to which all Greeks could stake a claim, regardless of their actual Persian-War service. The chapter begins with some of the Macedonians’ most conspicuous Persian-War commemorations and then considers three contemporary rejections of their invented tradition…
Conclusion
In 340/39 the Athenian orator Aeschines, then serving as a delegate to the Delphic Amphictyony, defended the propriety of a Persian-War monument that the Athenians had recently dedicated at Delphi. The charge was brought by the Amphissians, but Aeschines saw clearly enough that the Thebans were lurking behind the accusation. The monument, a set of golden shields installed on the temple of Apollo, proclaimed that the Athenians had defeated the Per…
Time and Space
This chapter considers the extent of the differences that emerged between various state memories of the Persian War, focusing here on the basic framing questions of when the war occurred and where. Despite drawing on the same chronicle of events, the Greeks developed various answers. Yates begins by examining four extended narratives that address these questions of periodization and spatialization directly: Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato’s Menexenu…
States of Memory
The Persian War was one of the most significant events in ancient history. It halted Persia’s westward expansion, inspired the Golden Age of Greece, and propelled Athens to the heights of power. From the end of the war almost to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and later the Romans recalled the battles and heroes of this war with unabated zeal. The resulting monuments and narratives have long been used to elucidate the history of the war itself, …
The Conquest of Ruins
Hell (=H) sets out to examine the long tradition of recalling and reproducing images of Rome in Western Europe, a phenomenon she calls neo-Roman mimesis. Throughout this study, she argues that "all these acts of neo-Roman mimesis and the imperial imaginaries that they engendered have one thing in common: they revolve around what I call the scenario of imperial ruin gazing, a scopic scenario visualizing the end of the Roman Empire" (2). This obses…
Ephorus and Alexander the Great (FGrHist 70 F 223)
Scholars have long maintained that Ephorus began work on the Histories in the middle years of the fourth century, and so place its genesis and most of its composition before the reign of Alexander the Great. A fragment that mentions Alexander’s crossing into Asia (FGrHist 70 F 223) has long been dismissed, but this article argues that it accurately reflects the content of the Histories and most likely appeared in Book 1, which suggests that Ephor…
Persia and Greece
Persian wars, memory of
The Persian wars were among the most remembered events in the ancient world and formed an important component of Greek and later Roman collective memory. From the beginning of Persia's intervention in the Greek world to the end of antiquity, the Greeks and Romans produced numerous commemorations that incorporated some recollection of these events. These commemorations could vary considerably and were constantly evolving. The victorious Greek stat…
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