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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For Agamemnon, far from personifying Greek liberty, constantly looks like a slave
in Iphigenia in Aulis.*3 Certainly, when he himself speaks of it, he is sometimes
able to impart a noble appearance to this servitude. In line 443, indeed, ...
For Agamemnon, far from personifying Greek liberty, constantly looks like a slave
in Iphigenia in Aulis.*3 Certainly, when he himself speaks of it, he is sometimes
able to impart a noble appearance to this servitude. In line 443, indeed, ...
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1506-27). But he is never anything but a grotesque caricature of Orestes,104
which prevents one from interpreting this scene as a demonstration of Barbarian
cowardice. If the Phrygian slave gains the hero's approval when he proclaims his
...
1506-27). But he is never anything but a grotesque caricature of Orestes,104
which prevents one from interpreting this scene as a demonstration of Barbarian
cowardice. If the Phrygian slave gains the hero's approval when he proclaims his
...
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to use their physical strength, and endowed to such a limited extent with reason,
that they should be assigned as slaves to a master for their own good: this would
be as profitable for them as domestication is for animals. According to Aristotle ...
to use their physical strength, and endowed to such a limited extent with reason,
that they should be assigned as slaves to a master for their own good: this would
be as profitable for them as domestication is for animals. According to Aristotle ...
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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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