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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57 analogues , ss the deformation of the native traditions of a foreign people for
Greek ideological ends : all these may be taken to suggest a relative ignorance of
, and indifference towards , the people in question . In another sense , however ...
57 analogues , ss the deformation of the native traditions of a foreign people for
Greek ideological ends : all these may be taken to suggest a relative ignorance of
, and indifference towards , the people in question . In another sense , however ...
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To 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
foreign ...
To 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
foreign ...
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In the surviving plays of Aristophanes foreign peoples do not feature centrally .
Rather they appear in brief cameos such as the Scythian archer scene in the
Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ambassadors from Persia
in the ...
In the surviving plays of Aristophanes foreign peoples do not feature centrally .
Rather they appear in brief cameos such as the Scythian archer scene in the
Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ambassadors from Persia
in the ...
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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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