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Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers’ Accounts

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This chapter addresses the evolving processes of textual memorialisation of a key Eastern cultural site in Western imagination, Persepolis, as addressed in the writings of three types of early English visitors, actual or supposed: a company agent (Geoffrey Ducket, agent of the Muscovy company), a churchman (John Cartwright) and an antiquarian-minded gentleman-diplomat (Thomas Herbert). These collective, heavily intertextual memories overwhelm the actual experience of the visit and make cultural expectation result in mis-identifications of other sites for the actual Persepolis or in biased or fanciful descriptions of what the travellers had before their eyes.
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hal-04009605 , version 1 (01-03-2023)

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Ladan Niayesh. Reterritorializing Persepolis in the First English Travellers’ Accounts. Jane Grogan. Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe, Oxford University Press, pp.115-131, 2020, 9780198767114. ⟨10.1093/oso/9780198767114.003.0006⟩. ⟨hal-04009605⟩
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