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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... Egyptians ; his account of the Persian Wars envisages Greek victory as in large part the result of consistent Persian mistakes . Never- theless , he also reflects a much more celebratory tradition of the Persian Wars , one which sees ...
... Egyptians ; his account of the Persian Wars envisages Greek victory as in large part the result of consistent Persian mistakes . Never- theless , he also reflects a much more celebratory tradition of the Persian Wars , one which sees ...
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... Egyptians , proverbial for their religious scruples , and for the depth of their knowledge of human history ; +3 ... Egyptian women , for instance , urinate standing , men sitting ( 2.35 ) . At the same time , however , he compares ...
... Egyptians , proverbial for their religious scruples , and for the depth of their knowledge of human history ; +3 ... Egyptian women , for instance , urinate standing , men sitting ( 2.35 ) . At the same time , however , he compares ...
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... Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ... Egyptian attitudes to foreign languages , see Donadoni , ' Gli Egiziani e le lingue degli altri ' . For language as ...
... Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ... Egyptian attitudes to foreign languages , see Donadoni , ' Gli Egiziani e le lingue degli altri ' . For language as ...
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... Egyptians and turning on its head the Greek idea of the barbaros ( a term which seems originally to have desig- 59 - 55 See e.g. Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 66–9 ; see further below , Ch . 4 ( Lissarrague ) , introduction to ...
... Egyptians and turning on its head the Greek idea of the barbaros ( a term which seems originally to have desig- 59 - 55 See e.g. Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 66–9 ; see further below , Ch . 4 ( Lissarrague ) , introduction to ...
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... Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ... Egyptian attitudes to foreign languages , see Donadoni , ' Gli Egiziani e le lingue degli altri ' . For language as ...
... Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ... Egyptian attitudes to foreign languages , see Donadoni , ' Gli Egiziani e le lingue degli altri ' . For language as ...
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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