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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Thomas Harrison. Greek enemies - unlike the Trojans of fifth - century tragedy , who , in the light of the Persian Wars , were painted in barbarian colours . " A number of recent studies have emphasised the extent of Near Eastern ...
Thomas Harrison. Greek enemies - unlike the Trojans of fifth - century tragedy , who , in the light of the Persian Wars , were painted in barbarian colours . " A number of recent studies have emphasised the extent of Near Eastern ...
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... tragedy , Inventing the Barbarian ( 1989 ) . Nevertheless , it would be misleading to give an impression of an established sub - discipline or of a consensus between scholars . Most of the authors whose work is contained in this volume ...
... tragedy , Inventing the Barbarian ( 1989 ) . Nevertheless , it would be misleading to give an impression of an established sub - discipline or of a consensus between scholars . Most of the authors whose work is contained in this volume ...
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... tragedy , Inventing the Barbarian ( 1989 ) . Nevertheless , it would be misleading to give an impression of an established sub - discipline or of a consensus between scholars . Most of the authors whose work is contained in this volume ...
... tragedy , Inventing the Barbarian ( 1989 ) . Nevertheless , it would be misleading to give an impression of an established sub - discipline or of a consensus between scholars . Most of the authors whose work is contained in this volume ...
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... tragedy ' from classical Athens , how- ever , it has often been interpreted on the erroneous assumption that Aeschylus intended to give an accurate impression of the setting of his play - the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa ...
... tragedy ' from classical Athens , how- ever , it has often been interpreted on the erroneous assumption that Aeschylus intended to give an accurate impression of the setting of his play - the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa ...
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... Tragedy . 15 Murray , Aeschylus , pp . 127-8 . 16 In her Inventing the Barbarian ( for the Persians , see esp . Ch . 2 ) , and in her subsequent edition of the play . Comparison with Hall's main predecessor , Bacon's Barbarians in Greek ...
... Tragedy . 15 Murray , Aeschylus , pp . 127-8 . 16 In her Inventing the Barbarian ( for the Persians , see esp . Ch . 2 ) , and in her subsequent edition of the play . Comparison with Hall's main predecessor , Bacon's Barbarians in Greek ...
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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