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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s Other aspects of the later Greek - barbarian antithesis , however – in particular , the contrast between Greek democracy and oriental despotism – were very much less marked in the period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature ...
s Other aspects of the later Greek - barbarian antithesis , however – in particular , the contrast between Greek democracy and oriental despotism – were very much less marked in the period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature ...
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The Persian Wars organised such stereotypes of the east , sharpening the focus , for example , of the contrasts between eastern luxury and Greek simplicity , despotism and democracy , and emphasising ( if not initiating ) an assumption ...
The Persian Wars organised such stereotypes of the east , sharpening the focus , for example , of the contrasts between eastern luxury and Greek simplicity , despotism and democracy , and emphasising ( if not initiating ) an assumption ...
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28 See now Harrison , ' The Persian invasions ' ; contrast Hall , Ethnic Identity p . 45 ( citing Nippel , Griechen , Barbaren und ' Wilde ' , pp . 14-16 ) , asserting simplistically that no adverse comparison between Greeks and ...
28 See now Harrison , ' The Persian invasions ' ; contrast Hall , Ethnic Identity p . 45 ( citing Nippel , Griechen , Barbaren und ' Wilde ' , pp . 14-16 ) , asserting simplistically that no adverse comparison between Greeks and ...
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As for the range of themes covered , there is no dedicated discussion included of the ' gendering of foreign peoples , of the representation of foreign women , or of the political contrast pointed between Greek democracy and eastern ...
As for the range of themes covered , there is no dedicated discussion included of the ' gendering of foreign peoples , of the representation of foreign women , or of the political contrast pointed between Greek democracy and eastern ...
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... context : that of the Athenian democratic ideals of submission to collective action and of accountability , ideals underlined by the anonymity of the Greeks in the play by contrast to the elaborately listed Persian commanders .
... context : that of the Athenian democratic ideals of submission to collective action and of accountability , ideals underlined by the anonymity of the Greeks in the play by contrast to the elaborately listed Persian commanders .
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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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