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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... world . The purpose of this volume is to bring to a wider audience material which emphasises the difference and the complexity of Greek representations of foreign peoples - or barbarians , as they termed them . HISTORICAL OVERVIEW To ...
... world . The purpose of this volume is to bring to a wider audience material which emphasises the difference and the complexity of Greek representations of foreign peoples - or barbarians , as they termed them . HISTORICAL OVERVIEW To ...
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... Greek images of foreign peoples can be seen to respond - though not in any ... Greek ) , 14 and the impression of the immense wealth of the monarchies of the ... world ' ; Lévy , ' Naissance du concept de barbare ' ; see further below , n ...
... Greek images of foreign peoples can be seen to respond - though not in any ... Greek ) , 14 and the impression of the immense wealth of the monarchies of the ... world ' ; Lévy , ' Naissance du concept de barbare ' ; see further below , n ...
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... Greek world , and of contact between the Greek world and the Near East , influences and contact that took place not - as in the post - Persian War period – against the backdrop of an ideology of contempt for oriental decadence but in a ...
... Greek world , and of contact between the Greek world and the Near East , influences and contact that took place not - as in the post - Persian War period – against the backdrop of an ideology of contempt for oriental decadence but in a ...
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... Greek settlements as far afield as modern Afghanistan , 37 but also to the political marginalisation of the old Greek world . Old clichés had also to adapt to new circumstances : the displacement of Persian by Graeco - Macedonian 35 3 ...
... Greek settlements as far afield as modern Afghanistan , 37 but also to the political marginalisation of the old Greek world . Old clichés had also to adapt to new circumstances : the displacement of Persian by Graeco - Macedonian 35 3 ...
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... Greek categories in modern European thought , in justification of colonialism or in modern scholarship on the ancient world . The aim in selecting these pieces has been to satisfy a number of ( sometimes conflicting ) criteria : to ...
... Greek categories in modern European thought , in justification of colonialism or in modern scholarship on the ancient world . The aim in selecting these pieces has been to satisfy a number of ( sometimes conflicting ) criteria : to ...
Contents
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SOURCES | 15 |
THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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