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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... appear to draw from a common pool of knowledge of the Persian court.2 20 With Suzanne Saïd ( Ch . 3 ) , we turn then to the later problematisation of the Greek - barbarian antithesis by Euripides . Saïd shows how Greek conceptions of ...
... appear to draw from a common pool of knowledge of the Persian court.2 20 With Suzanne Saïd ( Ch . 3 ) , we turn then to the later problematisation of the Greek - barbarian antithesis by Euripides . Saïd shows how Greek conceptions of ...
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... appear in brief cameos such as the Scythian archer scene in the Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ambassadors from Persia in the Acharnians , in the characterisation of Athenian politicians as barbarian slaves , 5 or in ...
... appear in brief cameos such as the Scythian archer scene in the Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ambassadors from Persia in the Acharnians , in the characterisation of Athenian politicians as barbarian slaves , 5 or in ...
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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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