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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Reading the last works of Euripides, the Phoenician Women and the Bacchae,
one may well doubt it. In the Phoenician Women, Euripides deliberately blurs the
frontiers that Aeschylus had so firmly mapped out in the Seven against Thebes.
Reading the last works of Euripides, the Phoenician Women and the Bacchae,
one may well doubt it. In the Phoenician Women, Euripides deliberately blurs the
frontiers that Aeschylus had so firmly mapped out in the Seven against Thebes.
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63 8ff.) and refer in the prologue to the day when he arrived in Thebes 'after
leaving the maritime land of Phoenicia' (l. 6). ... But the presence in the Europeia
of Stesichorus of an allusion to Cadmus (scho1. to Euripides, Phoenician Women
, l.
63 8ff.) and refer in the prologue to the day when he arrived in Thebes 'after
leaving the maritime land of Phoenicia' (l. 6). ... But the presence in the Europeia
of Stesichorus of an allusion to Cadmus (scho1. to Euripides, Phoenician Women
, l.
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This presentation of Theban history in the Phoenician Women deserves our
attention because of its unusual character. To effect it, Euripides had to distance
himself from the more common versions of the legend of Cadmus and make a ...
This presentation of Theban history in the Phoenician Women deserves our
attention because of its unusual character. To effect it, Euripides had to distance
himself from the more common versions of the legend of Cadmus and make a ...
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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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