Fraser, James, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & Henry Bishop-Wright. 2023. Luxury and power: Persia to Greece. London: British Museum Press. 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. […]
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