Greeks and BarbariansThomas Harrison Routledge, 2018 M01 15 - 288 pages Greeks 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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... Greeks and native peoples unequivocally that of ruler and ruled . Greek colonies , moreover , were by no means the exclusive , or even primary , context for the interaction of Greeks and foreign peoples : in the archaic period , Greeks ...
... Greeks and native peoples unequivocally that of ruler and ruled . Greek colonies , moreover , were by no means the exclusive , or even primary , context for the interaction of Greeks and foreign peoples : in the archaic period , Greeks ...
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... Greek ) , 14 and the impression of the immense wealth of the monarchies of the Near East ( an impression associated in particular with the Lydian King Croesus ) all long predate the Persian Wars.'s Other aspects of the later Greek ...
... Greek ) , 14 and the impression of the immense wealth of the monarchies of the Near East ( an impression associated in particular with the Lydian King Croesus ) all long predate the Persian Wars.'s Other aspects of the later Greek ...
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... Greek simplicity , despotism and democracy , and emphasising ( if not initiating ) an assumption of Greek superiority . " 9 Aeschylus ' celebration of Athenian and Greek victory in his Persians ( 472 ) contains many of the contrasts ...
... Greek simplicity , despotism and democracy , and emphasising ( if not initiating ) an assumption of Greek superiority . " 9 Aeschylus ' celebration of Athenian and Greek victory in his Persians ( 472 ) contains many of the contrasts ...
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... Greek cultural superiority , 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 ...
... Greek cultural superiority , 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 ...
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... Greek - barbarian polarity ; the use of Persia as a model of the ideal monarchy by Xenophon in the Cyropaedia ; 33 the identification ( associated with Isocrates ) of Greek identity with culture rather than birth ; 34 the continuation ...
... Greek - barbarian polarity ; the use of Persia as a model of the ideal monarchy by Xenophon in the Cyropaedia ; 33 the identification ( associated with Isocrates ) of Greek identity with culture rather than birth ; 34 the continuation ...
Contents
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| 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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