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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... ILLYRIA THRACE THESSALY Sinope Trapezus PHRYGIA ARMENIA LYDIA ASIA MINOR IONIA Tarsus CILICIA MESOPOTAMIA Cyrene Sidon Cyprus Tyre PHOENICIA Ascalon Naucratis Memphis ARABIA Siwa LIBYA EGYPT R Nile RED SEA ETHIOPIA 2000 Kilometres.
... ILLYRIA THRACE THESSALY Sinope Trapezus PHRYGIA ARMENIA LYDIA ASIA MINOR IONIA Tarsus CILICIA MESOPOTAMIA Cyrene Sidon Cyprus Tyre PHOENICIA Ascalon Naucratis Memphis ARABIA Siwa LIBYA EGYPT R Nile RED SEA ETHIOPIA 2000 Kilometres.
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Only in the Hellenistic period ( following Alexander's conquests of Egypt and the Near East ) was the relationship of Greeks and native peoples unequivocally that of ruler and ruled . Greek colonies , moreover , were by no means the ...
Only in the Hellenistic period ( following Alexander's conquests of Egypt and the Near East ) was the relationship of Greeks and native peoples unequivocally that of ruler and ruled . Greek colonies , moreover , were by no means the ...
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... mocking the Greeks , for example , as children in their knowledge of the gods by comparison with the Egyptians ; 27 his account of the Persian Wars envisages Greek victory as in large part the result of consistent Persian mistakes .
... mocking the Greeks , for example , as children in their knowledge of the gods by comparison with the Egyptians ; 27 his account of the Persian Wars envisages Greek victory as in large part the result of consistent Persian mistakes .
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Egyptian customs often present a mirror image of those of the Greeks : Egyptian women , for instance , urinate standing , men sitting ... and details how knowledge of the gods came from Egypt to Greece ( e.g. 2.49-50 ) 38 See esp .
Egyptian customs often present a mirror image of those of the Greeks : Egyptian women , for instance , urinate standing , men sitting ... and details how knowledge of the gods came from Egypt to Greece ( e.g. 2.49-50 ) 38 See esp .
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He also ascribes a Greek - style ethnocentrism to both Persians and Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ; cf. 1.134 ) .46 Other authors similarly confound any ...
He also ascribes a Greek - style ethnocentrism to both Persians and Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ; cf. 1.134 ) .46 Other authors similarly confound any ...
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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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