Greeks and BarbariansThomas Harrison Routledge, 2018 M01 15 - 288 pages Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners and there religions, and cultures, and politics reveals as much about the Greeks as it does the world they inhabited. Despite occasional interest in particular aspects of foreign customs, the Greeks were largely hostile and dismissive viewing foreigners as at best inferior, but more often as candidates for conquest and enslavement. |
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... Barbarian , pp . 61-2 . * See Pryke , ' Nationalism and sexuality ' ; for the invention of a British identity in oppo- sition especially to the French , see Colley , Britons ; see also McDonald , ' We Are Not French ! " . ' Southern ...
... Barbarian , pp . 61-2 . * See Pryke , ' Nationalism and sexuality ' ; for the invention of a British identity in oppo- sition especially to the French , see Colley , Britons ; see also McDonald , ' We Are Not French ! " . ' Southern ...
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... barbarian not least the institution of slavery , increasingly identified by the Greeks as the natural status of ... barbarian ' . Many of the ingredients of that portrayal - the image of barbarians as an untidy horde of countless ...
... barbarian not least the institution of slavery , increasingly identified by the Greeks as the natural status of ... barbarian ' . Many of the ingredients of that portrayal - the image of barbarians as an untidy horde of countless ...
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... barbarian colours . " A number of recent studies have emphasised the extent of Near Eastern influences on the Greek world , and of contact between the Greek world and the Near East , influences and contact that took place not - as in ...
... barbarian colours . " A number of recent studies have emphasised the extent of Near Eastern influences on the Greek world , and of contact between the Greek world and the Near East , influences and contact that took place not - as in ...
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... barbarian traits to the Greeks themselves.29 It is sometimes claimed also that the comic poet Aristophanes , writing in the same period , reserved real hostility for the Peloponnesians , while the Persians were the butt only of humour.3 ...
... barbarian traits to the Greeks themselves.29 It is sometimes claimed also that the comic poet Aristophanes , writing in the same period , reserved real hostility for the Peloponnesians , while the Persians were the butt only of humour.3 ...
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... barbarian polarity ; the use of Persia as a model of the ideal monarchy by Xenophon in the Cyropaedia ; 3 the iden- tification ( associated with Isocrates ) of Greek identity with culture rather than birth ; 34 the continuation and ...
... barbarian polarity ; the use of Persia as a model of the ideal monarchy by Xenophon in the Cyropaedia ; 3 the iden- tification ( associated with Isocrates ) of Greek identity with culture rather than birth ; 34 the continuation and ...
Contents
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The Athenian Image of the Foreigner ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Introduction to Part II | 127 |
When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernals Ancient Model | 133 |
T | 147 |
The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions | 172 |
Introduction to Part III | 189 |
The Greeks as Egyptologists | 211 |
Introduction to Part IV | 231 |
From Antiquity to the Renaissance | 257 |
The Construction of the Other | 278 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Index | 328 |
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