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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I have argued elsewhere for an interpretation of the play as more unequivocally unsympathetic to the Persians , and that modern scholars have projected onto Aeschylus and the Athenians the freedom from xenophobia and humility in victory ...
I have argued elsewhere for an interpretation of the play as more unequivocally unsympathetic to the Persians , and that modern scholars have projected onto Aeschylus and the Athenians the freedom from xenophobia and humility in victory ...
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Greek drinkers , he argues , themselves become ' other through the consumption of wine . ... For an argument , however , that Herodotus conceives the Persians ' defeat as in large part caused by their lack of reverence for the gods ...
Greek drinkers , he argues , themselves become ' other through the consumption of wine . ... For an argument , however , that Herodotus conceives the Persians ' defeat as in large part caused by their lack of reverence for the gods ...
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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 Lissarrague's argument that the ...
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 Lissarrague's argument that the ...
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... the Persians.36 As argued above , however ( in the general introduction ) , Miller's interpretation of such contacts - that they necessarily contradict , or work against , Greek prejudices against the Persians – may be contested .
... the Persians.36 As argued above , however ( in the general introduction ) , Miller's interpretation of such contacts - that they necessarily contradict , or work against , Greek prejudices against the Persians – may be contested .
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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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