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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... SCYTHIA Danube TAURIS MASSAGETAI R Danube BLACK SEA MACEDONIA ILLYRIA THRACE THESSALY Sinope Trapezus PHRYGIA ARMENIA LYDIA ASIA MINOR IONIA Tarsus CILICIA MESOPOTAMIA Cyrene Sidon Cyprus Tyre PHOENICIA Ascalon Naucratis Memphis ARABIA ...
... SCYTHIA Danube TAURIS MASSAGETAI R Danube BLACK SEA MACEDONIA ILLYRIA THRACE THESSALY Sinope Trapezus PHRYGIA ARMENIA LYDIA ASIA MINOR IONIA Tarsus CILICIA MESOPOTAMIA Cyrene Sidon Cyprus Tyre PHOENICIA Ascalon Naucratis Memphis ARABIA ...
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... Scythians , whose resistance of 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 ...
... Scythians , whose resistance of 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 ...
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... Scythians were not all savages ' ( p . 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 ...
... Scythians were not all savages ' ( p . 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 ...
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... Scythian archer scene in the Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ambassadors from Persia in the ... Scythians.27 His discussion of the Amazons also brings out the overlayering of different ' others ' : the Amazons ...
... Scythian archer scene in the Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ambassadors from Persia in the ... Scythians.27 His discussion of the Amazons also brings out the overlayering of different ' others ' : the Amazons ...
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... Scythians in Herodotus . A curious sidelight is provided by the Athenians ' purchase , following the Persian wars , of a body of Scythian archers ( or slaves dressed as Scythians ) to serve as a proto - police force in Athens.28 ...
... Scythians in Herodotus . A curious sidelight is provided by the Athenians ' purchase , following the Persian wars , of a body of Scythian archers ( or slaves dressed as Scythians ) to serve as a proto - police force in Athens.28 ...
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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