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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This would have been the case if Paris had accepted the suggestions of Pallas,
who had 'offered him the chance of going to conquer Greece at the head of a
Phrygian army' (l. yzjff.). Helen even goes so far as to claim that, like an Olympic ...
This would have been the case if Paris had accepted the suggestions of Pallas,
who had 'offered him the chance of going to conquer Greece at the head of a
Phrygian army' (l. yzjff.). Helen even goes so far as to claim that, like an Olympic ...
Page 203
... et redistribution chez les Achemenides' (Table Ronde de Paris, March 1986),
to be published [subsequently published in P. Briant and C. Herrenschmidt (eds),
he tribut dans I'empire perse: actes de las table ronde de Paris (Paris 1989), pp.
... et redistribution chez les Achemenides' (Table Ronde de Paris, March 1986),
to be published [subsequently published in P. Briant and C. Herrenschmidt (eds),
he tribut dans I'empire perse: actes de las table ronde de Paris (Paris 1989), pp.
Page 212
... would see each hieroglyph as the expression of 'a kind of science and wisdom'
(Enneads, V, VIII, 6). 1 For the whole of this first part, see C. Froidefond, he
mirage egyptien dans la litterature grecque d'Homere a Aristote, Paris, Thesis,
1971.
... would see each hieroglyph as the expression of 'a kind of science and wisdom'
(Enneads, V, VIII, 6). 1 For the whole of this first part, see C. Froidefond, he
mirage egyptien dans la litterature grecque d'Homere a Aristote, Paris, Thesis,
1971.
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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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Achaemenid Aeschylus Agamemnon Amazons ancient Antiquity argument Aristotle Athenaeus Athenian Athens Attic Aulis Bacchae Bacchants Barbarian barbarism Bernal Byzantine Cadmus civilisation classical common concept context contrast Ctesias cult customs Cyrus Darius despotism dialect Dionysus Doric Egypt Egyptian emphasises empire Emptiness of Asia ethnic ethnographic Euripides example fact fifth century foreign gods Greece Greek cities Greek history Greek nation Greek world Greeks and Barbarians Harrison Hartog Hecataeus Hellas Hellenic Hellenistic Heracles hero Herodotus historian hoplite Ibid identity interpretation Inventing the Barbarian Iphigenia Isocrates king koine language linguistic Lissarrague Menelaus myth mythical nature Nippel nomoi nomos non-Greek Orestes oriental origin panhellenic Paris Pelasgians Persian Wars Phoenician Women Phrygian Plato play polis political Pygmies religion representation Roman sacrifice Scythians slaves Spartan speak speech story Synodinou Thebes theme theory Thracian Thucydides tion tradition tragedy Trojan Xenophon Xerxes Zeus
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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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