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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But, as Edith Hall emphasises in her 'When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernal's "
Ancient Model"' (below, Ch. 5), it is important to distinguish between what the
Greeks thought about their origins (their 'subjective ethnicity') and the reality ('
objective ...
But, as Edith Hall emphasises in her 'When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernal's "
Ancient Model"' (below, Ch. 5), it is important to distinguish between what the
Greeks thought about their origins (their 'subjective ethnicity') and the reality ('
objective ...
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CONCLUSION: MYTH AND HISTORY Ultimately the decision whether to accept
or reject Bernal's advocacy of the "ancient model" depends on whether we can
accept his handling of ancient Greek myth. This would mean that we must accept
...
CONCLUSION: MYTH AND HISTORY Ultimately the decision whether to accept
or reject Bernal's advocacy of the "ancient model" depends on whether we can
accept his handling of ancient Greek myth. This would mean that we must accept
...
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Straussian work on myths as ideological charters for social institutions, as
expressions of subconscious desires, or as mediators or abstractions of concern
to the contemporary world? Are we to ignore all the work done by social scientists
in ...
Straussian work on myths as ideological charters for social institutions, as
expressions of subconscious desires, or as mediators or abstractions of concern
to the contemporary world? Are we to ignore all the work done by social scientists
in ...
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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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