Short fiction · Contemporary historical reception · Perama · Salamis remembered in a modern landscape

On Xerxes’ Throne

Released · 2022

Later Reception & Cultural Continuity · Classical Greece

A contemporary dystopian story in Perama takes its title and historical resonance from the landscape associated with Xerxes watching the battle of Salamis.

View towards the Acropolis from the Pnyx in Athens — The Pnyx and Acropolis, Athens. Contextual photograph; not a production still. George E. Koronaios · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped and resized.

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A contemporary dystopian story in Perama takes its title and historical resonance from the landscape associated with Xerxes watching the battle of Salamis. The 2022 Critics’ Week selection explains this local historical reference. Its present-day setting must not be presented as a screen reconstruction of the Persian Wars.

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2022 Critics’ Week
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