Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece

by James Fraser

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714111961
• ISBN13: 9780714111964
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: British Museum Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 9.8"