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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... 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 despotism . Discussion of these themes is spread across the ...
... 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 despotism . Discussion of these themes is spread across the ...
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... discussions , however , have moved away from a simplistic ( and often crudely Hellenocentric ) emphasis on ' Hellenisation ' towards a more complex model of two - way cultural interaction.54 The decision to omit any dedicated discussion ...
... discussions , however , have moved away from a simplistic ( and often crudely Hellenocentric ) emphasis on ' Hellenisation ' towards a more complex model of two - way cultural interaction.54 The decision to omit any dedicated discussion ...
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... discuss the veracity of Greek representations of foreign peoples would require a whole series of volumes . It might also provide a distraction : critics and historians have often confused the two objects of Greek representation and ...
... discuss the veracity of Greek representations of foreign peoples would require a whole series of volumes . It might also provide a distraction : critics and historians have often confused the two objects of Greek representation and ...
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... discussing Persian women , there is a danger that this alchemy – the reuse of Greek texts for Persian history – is performed in too simplistic and convenient a fashion : facts that reflect well on Persia are believed , those that do not ...
... discussing Persian women , there is a danger that this alchemy – the reuse of Greek texts for Persian history – is performed in too simplistic and convenient a fashion : facts that reflect well on Persia are believed , those that do not ...
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... discussion of the Amazons also brings out the overlayering of different ' others ' : the Amazons are at once feminine and foreign . Like James Redfield in Chapter 1 , Lissarrague shows how it is Greek categories 22 See esp . Boedeker ...
... discussion of the Amazons also brings out the overlayering of different ' others ' : the Amazons are at once feminine and foreign . Like James Redfield in Chapter 1 , Lissarrague shows how it is Greek categories 22 See esp . Boedeker ...
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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