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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Acknowledgements For permission to reprint the articles included in this volume , I should like to thank the following : Professor James Redfield and the University of Chicago Press ( Ch . 1 ) , Dr Simon Goldhill and the Hellenic ...
Acknowledgements For permission to reprint the articles included in this volume , I should like to thank the following : Professor James Redfield and the University of Chicago Press ( Ch . 1 ) , Dr Simon Goldhill and the Hellenic ...
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PWRE QUCC RA RAC RE , PWRE Journal of Hellenic Studies R. Kassel and C. F.L. Austin , Poetae Comici Graeci Les Études Classiques Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae Museum Helveticum R. Meiggs and D. M. Lewis , Greek Historical ...
PWRE QUCC RA RAC RE , PWRE Journal of Hellenic Studies R. Kassel and C. F.L. Austin , Poetae Comici Graeci Les Études Classiques Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae Museum Helveticum R. Meiggs and D. M. Lewis , Greek Historical ...
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54 See pre - eminently Kuhrt and Sherwin - White , Hellenism in the East ; Sherwin - White and Kuhrt , From Samarkand to Sardis ; also Momigliano's classic Alien Wisdom . 52 57 analogues , ss the deformation of the native traditions IO ...
54 See pre - eminently Kuhrt and Sherwin - White , Hellenism in the East ; Sherwin - White and Kuhrt , From Samarkand to Sardis ; also Momigliano's classic Alien Wisdom . 52 57 analogues , ss the deformation of the native traditions IO ...
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21 ) , with its apparent evocation of Hellenism and barbarism as eternal categories , but with a hint of self - consciousness ( ' We lovers of Greece are put very much on our defence nowadays , ' p . 10 ) .
21 ) , with its apparent evocation of Hellenism and barbarism as eternal categories , but with a hint of self - consciousness ( ' We lovers of Greece are put very much on our defence nowadays , ' p . 10 ) .
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For a rather over - tidy survey of Athenian and Hellenic identity through art , see also Harrison , ' Hellenic identity ' . 30 Bovon , ' La représentation des guerriers perses ' . For the representation of the Persians ( or the analogy ...
For a rather over - tidy survey of Athenian and Hellenic identity through art , see also Harrison , ' Hellenic identity ' . 30 Bovon , ' La représentation des guerriers perses ' . For the representation of the Persians ( or the analogy ...
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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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