Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- List of Figures and Tbles -- Introduction: The Impact of the Persian Attack on Athens on the Study of Ancient Greece -- Janric van Rookhuijzen -- 1 The Trauma of 480  BCE as an Anchor: The Destruction of the City and the Rebuilding of the Community -- Giorgia Proietti -- 2 After Evacuation and Victory: A Turning Point in the Creation of the Athenian State Burial -- Marion Meyer -- 3 Rewriting History: The Battle of Salamis, 480  BCE -- Mathieu de Bakker -- 4 Ctesias’ Persian History and the Destruction(s) of Ionia -- Hans van Wees -- 5 Herodotus on 480  BCE and the Chronology of Late Archaic Greece -- Angelika Kellner -- 6 480  BCE : The Making of a World-Historical Date -- Suzanne Marchand -- 7 Revisiting the ‘Persian Destruction’ Wells of the Athenian Agora -- Michael Laughy and Floris van den Eijnde -- 8 Persian Destruction Deposits from the Athenian Agora Excavations: Pottery Chronology and its Challenges -- Kathleen M. Lynch -- 9 Another Look at the Stoa Gutter Well -- Steve F. Matter and Susan I. Rotroff -- 10 Revolution or Evolution? Reassessing the Relationship between Vase and Free Painting after 480  BCE -- Federico Figura -- 11 Phokaean Electrum Coinage and Klazomenian Red-Figure Decoration: Or, the Dangers of Overreliance on Athenian Chronologies in Asia Minor -- Anja Slawisch -- 12 480  BCE as a Marker in Greek Literary History -- André Lardinois -- Index.

In 480 BCE, during their invasion of Greece, the Persians began the destruction of Athens. How has this event shaped our understanding of Greek history? This interdisciplinary volume investigates the commemoration of the attack in Antiquity and how it became anchored in modern scholarship as a watershed dividing Archaic and Classical Greece. Drawing on ancient literature, material culture, including deposits in the Athenian Agora, and reception history, the book explores if and how the destruction of Athens stimulated cultural innovation. By investigating the significance of 480 BCE as a historical anchor for the scholarship on ancient Greece, the volume reopens the discussion on the periodization of Archaic and Classical Greece.

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