Introduction / Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes
The impact of the Persian wars on classical Greece / P.J. Rhodes
Xerxes' Homer / Johannes Haubold
The view from Eleusis : Demeter in the Persian Wars / Deborah Boedeker
Plato and the Persian wars / Christopher Rowe
The Persian wars in fourth-century oratory and historiography / John Marincola
Images of the Persian wars in Rome / Philip Hardie
De malignitate Plutarchi : Plutarch, Herodotus, and the Persian wars / Christopher Pelling
Aeschylus' Persians via the Ottoman empire to Saddam Hussein / Edith Hall
Operatic variations on an episode at the Hellespont / David Kimbell
'Shrines of the mighty' : rediscovering the battlefields of the Persian wars / Ian Macgregor Morris
From Marathon to Waterloo : Byron, battle monuments, and the Persian wars / Timothy Rood
Enacting history and patriotic myth : Aeschylus' Persians on the eve of the Greek War of Independence / Gonda Van Steen
The Persian wars as the 'origin' of historiography : ancient and modern orientalism in George Grote's History of Greece / Alexandra Lianeri
'People like us' in the face of history : Cormon's Les vainqueurs de Salamine / Clemence Schultze
Xerxes goes to Hollywood / D.S. Levene
The guts and the glory : Pressfield's Spartans at the Gates of fire / Emma Bridges.
