Greeks and barbariansGreeks 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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expedition as promises of victory over the Achaemenid armies? What ruler would
take at face value Isocrates' arguments on the many repeated revolts in the
empire? In actual fact, what dominated in Greece was rather an intense
fascination ...
expedition as promises of victory over the Achaemenid armies? What ruler would
take at face value Isocrates' arguments on the many repeated revolts in the
empire? In actual fact, what dominated in Greece was rather an intense
fascination ...
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... which by now have little to do with empirical observation106 - the same
process can be seen also in the projection of an ideal monarchy onto the earliest
times of the Achaemenid Empire, a projection that determines the general
character of ...
... which by now have little to do with empirical observation106 - the same
process can be seen also in the projection of an ideal monarchy onto the earliest
times of the Achaemenid Empire, a projection that determines the general
character of ...
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Root, M. C., The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art (Leiden: Brill, 1979) , '
From the heart: powerful Persianisms in the art of the western empire', in H.
Sancisi- Weerdenburg and A. Kuhrt (eds), Achaemenid History VI: Asia Minor
and Egypt: ...
Root, M. C., The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art (Leiden: Brill, 1979) , '
From the heart: powerful Persianisms in the art of the western empire', in H.
Sancisi- Weerdenburg and A. Kuhrt (eds), Achaemenid History VI: Asia Minor
and Egypt: ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
3 the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden fig 4 the Museum | 3 |
of Fine Arts Boston fig 5 the Archaeological Institute of | 10 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Greeks and barbarians Edinburgh readings on the ancient world |
| Author | Thomas Harrison |
| Editor | Thomas Harrison |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 074861270X, 9780748612703 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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