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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... Persian invasions of Greece , known collectively as the Persian Wars ( 490-479 ) . The Persian Wars were not the single cause of the pejorative portrayal of the Persians and the rise of the ' barbarian ' . Many of the ingredients of ...
... Persian invasions of Greece , known collectively as the Persian Wars ( 490-479 ) . The Persian Wars were not the single cause of the pejorative portrayal of the Persians and the rise of the ' barbarian ' . Many of the ingredients of ...
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... Persian War period – against the backdrop of an ideology of contempt for oriental decadence but in a spirit of apparent openness . The Persian Wars organised such stereotypes of the east , sharpening the focus , for example , of the ...
... Persian War period – against the backdrop of an ideology of contempt for oriental decadence but in a spirit of apparent openness . The Persian Wars organised such stereotypes of the east , sharpening the focus , for example , of the ...
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... Persian Wars ( possibly formalised in a treaty of 449 ) , and the end of a series of subsequent conflicts with the Persians in the eastern Mediterranean and in Egypt , did not lead to the ... Persian wars ) General Introduction 5.
... Persian Wars ( possibly formalised in a treaty of 449 ) , and the end of a series of subsequent conflicts with the Persians in the eastern Mediterranean and in Egypt , did not lead to the ... Persian wars ) General Introduction 5.
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Thomas Harrison. ( as the vanquished enemies of the Persian wars ) to the self - image of Athens , and as the single most significant off - stage presence in relations between the Greek cities.3 " Notoriously under - represented in ...
Thomas Harrison. ( as the vanquished enemies of the Persian wars ) to the self - image of Athens , and as the single most significant off - stage presence in relations between the Greek cities.3 " Notoriously under - represented in ...
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... Persian invasion through flight provided an analogy for the Athenian evacuation of Attica during the Persian Wars ; 4 ' the Thracians , archetypally ferocious and venial ; 42 the Egyptians , proverbial for their religious scruples , and ...
... Persian invasion through flight provided an analogy for the Athenian evacuation of Attica during the Persian Wars ; 4 ' the Thracians , archetypally ferocious and venial ; 42 the Egyptians , proverbial for their religious scruples , and ...
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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