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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... Herodotus the Tourist James Redfield Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus ' Persae Simon Goldhill 2 50 62 . 3 Greeks and Barbarians in Euripides ? Tragedies : The End of Differences ? Suzanne Saïd ; translated by Antonia Nevill 4 ...
... Herodotus the Tourist James Redfield Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus ' Persae Simon Goldhill 2 50 62 . 3 Greeks and Barbarians in Euripides ? Tragedies : The End of Differences ? Suzanne Saïd ; translated by Antonia Nevill 4 ...
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... Herodotus , written under the shadow of the first part of the Peloponnesian War ( 431-404 ) , clearly had a broader currency than in Athens . The Histories are increasingly ( and rightly ) seen as comparing the Persian empire with the ...
... Herodotus , written under the shadow of the first part of the Peloponnesian War ( 431-404 ) , clearly had a broader currency than in Athens . The Histories are increasingly ( and rightly ) seen as comparing the Persian empire with the ...
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... Herodotus , for example , as James Redfield's piece ( “ Herodotus the Tourist ' , Ch . 1 ) demonstrates , employs a whole range of different models for making sense of the many peoples he describes . Egyptian customs often present a ...
... Herodotus , for example , as James Redfield's piece ( “ Herodotus the Tourist ' , Ch . 1 ) demonstrates , employs a whole range of different models for making sense of the many peoples he describes . Egyptian customs often present a ...
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... Herodotus , may suggest . We must surely begin , moreover , from what evidence we have - in great part , that of representation®2 - rather than use scarce proof of contact to impose an order on that evidence . To discuss the veracity of ...
... Herodotus , may suggest . We must surely begin , moreover , from what evidence we have - in great part , that of representation®2 - rather than use scarce proof of contact to impose an order on that evidence . To discuss the veracity of ...
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... Herodotus , his subtlety as a historian , and the affinity between his own broad conception of ' history and that of modern historians . Two works in particular have given impetus to the modern study of ancient ' barbarians ' : François ...
... Herodotus , his subtlety as a historian , and the affinity between his own broad conception of ' history and that of modern historians . Two works in particular have given impetus to the modern study of ancient ' barbarians ' : François ...
Contents
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THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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