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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... human history ; 43 the Persians , once ( like the Greeks themselves ) poor but free , before their kings became frozen in the atavistic desire to expand their empire , and their subjects ruined by its spoils.44 The Greeks themselves ...
... human history ; 43 the Persians , once ( like the Greeks themselves ) poor but free , before their kings became frozen in the atavistic desire to expand their empire , and their subjects ruined by its spoils.44 The Greeks themselves ...
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... human customs or nomoi – and introduce an enormous range of ' barbarians ' . Redfield's distinction of ' hard ' and ' soft peoples , and his demonstration of how the Persians , initially hard , become soft through their conquests of the ...
... human customs or nomoi – and introduce an enormous range of ' barbarians ' . Redfield's distinction of ' hard ' and ' soft peoples , and his demonstration of how the Persians , initially hard , become soft through their conquests of the ...
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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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