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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... gives a disproportionate weight to the Persians , obscuring the diversity of different barbarian peoples in Greek thought . Though the Greeks on occasion spoke as if barbarians constituted a single homogeneous group39 - or as if they ...
... gives a disproportionate weight to the Persians , obscuring the diversity of different barbarian peoples in Greek thought . Though the Greeks on occasion spoke as if barbarians constituted a single homogeneous group39 - or as if they ...
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... give some sense of the variety of modern approaches . With the exception in particular of the overviews of Browning and Nippel , of Hall's treatment of archaic myth , or of the chronologically wide - ranging survey of attitudes to Egypt ...
... give some sense of the variety of modern approaches . With the exception in particular of the overviews of Browning and Nippel , of Hall's treatment of archaic myth , or of the chronologically wide - ranging survey of attitudes to Egypt ...
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... give an accurate portrayal of the Persian court.63 It should be stated at the outset that the Greek representation of foreign peoples is driven by a set of imperatives other than those of historical accuracy : the need to convey a ...
... give an accurate portrayal of the Persian court.63 It should be stated at the outset that the Greek representation of foreign peoples is driven by a set of imperatives other than those of historical accuracy : the need to convey a ...
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... give an impression of an established sub - discipline or of a consensus between scholars . Most of the authors whose work is contained in this volume arrive there as specialists in very disparate fields : Greek tragedy ( Goldhill , Saïd ) ...
... give an impression of an established sub - discipline or of a consensus between scholars . Most of the authors whose work is contained in this volume arrive there as specialists in very disparate fields : Greek tragedy ( Goldhill , Saïd ) ...
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... give an accurate impression of the setting of his play – the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa – or that , when 8 * See e.g. Romm , ' Herodotus and mythic geography ' , The Edges of the Earth ; Gianotti , ' Ordine e simmetria ...
... give an accurate impression of the setting of his play – the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa – or that , when 8 * See e.g. Romm , ' Herodotus and mythic geography ' , The Edges of the Earth ; Gianotti , ' Ordine e simmetria ...
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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