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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Dionysus envisages this possibility, as early as the prologue, when he declares:
If the city of the Thebans, yielding to anger, takes up arms to try to drive the
Bacchants out of the mountains, I will fight it at the head of a band of Maenads ...
Dionysus envisages this possibility, as early as the prologue, when he declares:
If the city of the Thebans, yielding to anger, takes up arms to try to drive the
Bacchants out of the mountains, I will fight it at the head of a band of Maenads ...
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there are rarer variants: Heracles/satyr (2); Heracles/negro (2); Dionysus/satyr (1
); Dionysus/woman (1). The importance of the women is clear, and matches the
predominant model followed in jugs for pouring wine. The other subjects are ...
there are rarer variants: Heracles/satyr (2); Heracles/negro (2); Dionysus/satyr (1
); Dionysus/woman (1). The importance of the women is clear, and matches the
predominant model followed in jugs for pouring wine. The other subjects are ...
Page 147
A telling example is the figure of Dionysus. Nearly everyone10 used to believe
narratives (such as Euripides' Bacchae) which tell of the bringing of Dionysiac
religion from Asia or Thrace to Hellas, and so placed the introduction of this new
...
A telling example is the figure of Dionysus. Nearly everyone10 used to believe
narratives (such as Euripides' Bacchae) which tell of the bringing of Dionysiac
religion from Asia or Thrace to Hellas, and so placed the introduction of this new
...
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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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