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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Aristotle's idea of ' natural slavery ' ( a theory , as we will see , rooted in earlier , See Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 61–2 . ? See Pryke , ' Nationalism and sexuality ' ; for the invention of a British identity in ...
Aristotle's idea of ' natural slavery ' ( a theory , as we will see , rooted in earlier , See Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 61–2 . ? See Pryke , ' Nationalism and sexuality ' ; for the invention of a British identity in ...
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Other forms of contact , of course , were more likely to feed a negative stereotype of the barbarian – not least the institution of slavery , increasingly identified by the Greeks as the natural status of barbarians .
Other forms of contact , of course , were more likely to feed a negative stereotype of the barbarian – not least the institution of slavery , increasingly identified by the Greeks as the natural status of barbarians .
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18 Greek enemies - unlike the Trojans of fifth - century tragedy , who , in the light of the Persian Wars , were painted in barbarian colours . " A number of recent studies have emphasised the extent of Near Eastern influences on the ...
18 Greek enemies - unlike the Trojans of fifth - century tragedy , who , in the light of the Persian Wars , were painted in barbarian colours . " A number of recent studies have emphasised the extent of Near Eastern influences on the ...
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It is not an accident that it was against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War that Euripides ascribed barbarian traits to the Greeks themselves . 29 It is sometimes claimed also that the comic poet Aristophanes , writing in the same ...
It is not an accident that it was against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War that Euripides ascribed barbarian traits to the Greeks themselves . 29 It is sometimes claimed also that the comic poet Aristophanes , writing in the same ...
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The representation of foreign peoples in the late fifth and fourth centuries undergoes a number of contradictory movements : Euripides ' problematisation and refraction of the Greek - barbarian polarity ; the use of Persia as a model of ...
The representation of foreign peoples in the late fifth and fourth centuries undergoes a number of contradictory movements : Euripides ' problematisation and refraction of the Greek - barbarian polarity ; the use of Persia as a model of ...
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Contents
| 1 | |
| 15 | |
THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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| Title | Greeks and Barbarians |
| Editor | Thomas Harrison |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1351565036, 9781351565035 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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