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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... historians such as Ctesias ; the development of an ideal of Panhellenic unity ( through the Panhellenic orations of Gorgias and Lysias and the work of Isocrates ) . 36 This final dimension of fourth - century thought on the barbarian ...
... historians such as Ctesias ; the development of an ideal of Panhellenic unity ( through the Panhellenic orations of Gorgias and Lysias and the work of Isocrates ) . 36 This final dimension of fourth - century thought on the barbarian ...
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... historian Herodotus ( Ch . 1 : Redfield ) , the Athenian tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides ( Chs 2-3 : Goldhill , Saïd ) , and , finally , classical Athenian art ( Ch . 4 : Lissarrague ) . Part II then looks in more detail at a number ...
... historian Herodotus ( Ch . 1 : Redfield ) , the Athenian tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides ( Chs 2-3 : Goldhill , Saïd ) , and , finally , classical Athenian art ( Ch . 4 : Lissarrague ) . Part II then looks in more detail at a number ...
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... historians have often confused the two objects of Greek representation and foreign reality , supposing that Athenian potters intended to distinguish accurately the differing characteristics of various foreign peoples , or that Aeschylus ...
... historians have often confused the two objects of Greek representation and foreign reality , supposing that Athenian potters intended to distinguish accurately the differing characteristics of various foreign peoples , or that Aeschylus ...
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... historians now have in mind the imagined origins of a people , the way in which the Greeks or others express their sense of a common identity through a ʻreal or pretended ' kinship or common ancestor . 69 A book title such as Race ...
... historians now have in mind the imagined origins of a people , the way in which the Greeks or others express their sense of a common identity through a ʻreal or pretended ' kinship or common ancestor . 69 A book title such as Race ...
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... historian , and the affinity between his own broad conception of ' history and that of modern historians . Two works in particular have given impetus to the modern study of ancient ' barbarians ' : François Hartog's The Mirror of ...
... historian , and the affinity between his own broad conception of ' history and that of modern historians . Two works in particular have given impetus to the modern study of ancient ' barbarians ' : François Hartog's The Mirror of ...
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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