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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In another sense, however, GoldhilPs reading of the play is more conventiona1.
Like many of the play's modern interpreters, he sees it as strikingly sympathetic to
the plight of the defeated Persians: for Aeschylus to have composed a kommos ...
In another sense, however, GoldhilPs reading of the play is more conventiona1.
Like many of the play's modern interpreters, he sees it as strikingly sympathetic to
the plight of the defeated Persians: for Aeschylus to have composed a kommos ...
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One play which seems to fit uneasily into that description of Athenian tragedy —
as indeed it fits uneasily into many general arguments about Athenian theatre —
is Aeschylus' Persae. In this brief paper I want to suggest some ways in which ...
One play which seems to fit uneasily into that description of Athenian tragedy —
as indeed it fits uneasily into many general arguments about Athenian theatre —
is Aeschylus' Persae. In this brief paper I want to suggest some ways in which ...
Page 143
Bernal uses an Athenian text, Aeschylus' Suppliants, a play about the arrival of
Danaus and his fifty daughters from Egypt to Argos, as one of the linchpins of his
argument. In this play a decidedly Egyptianized and black Danaus and his fifty ...
Bernal uses an Athenian text, Aeschylus' Suppliants, a play about the arrival of
Danaus and his fifty daughters from Egypt to Argos, as one of the linchpins of his
argument. In this play a decidedly Egyptianized and black Danaus and his fifty ...
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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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