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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... identity - is one of the central themes of history . It is a theme that can be traced in any number of historical contexts : the Chinese Han dynasty's image of foreign peoples as illiterate nomads , the sexual stereotypes of the French ...
... identity - is one of the central themes of history . It is a theme that can be traced in any number of historical contexts : the Chinese Han dynasty's image of foreign peoples as illiterate nomads , the sexual stereotypes of the French ...
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... identity and social organisation ? – these were small - scale ventures initiated by individual , autonomous city - states ( or poleis ) , motivated by droughts and political tensions at home as well as by the desire for trade , co ...
... identity and social organisation ? – these were small - scale ventures initiated by individual , autonomous city - states ( or poleis ) , motivated by droughts and political tensions at home as well as by the desire for trade , co ...
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... Identity , p . 47 , of an ' aggregative Greek identity before the Persian Wars ( i.e. built up on the basis of similarities with peers ) and an ' oppositional identity after the Persian Wars . For the transition marked by the Persian ...
... Identity , p . 47 , of an ' aggregative Greek identity before the Persian Wars ( i.e. built up on the basis of similarities with peers ) and an ' oppositional identity after the Persian Wars . For the transition marked by the Persian ...
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... Identity p . 45 ( citing Nippel , Griechen , Barbaren und ' Wilde ' , pp . 14-16 ) , asserting simplistically that no adverse comparison between Greeks and barbarians is made by Herodotus ( by comparison with Aeschylus ) . 29 For ...
... Identity p . 45 ( citing Nippel , Griechen , Barbaren und ' Wilde ' , pp . 14-16 ) , asserting simplistically that no adverse comparison between Greeks and barbarians is made by Herodotus ( by comparison with Aeschylus ) . 29 For ...
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... identity with culture rather than birth ; 34 the continuation and elaboration of a stereotyped portrayal of the wealth and decadence of the eastern barbarian in Xenophon , Plato , and fragmentary historians such as Ctesias ; the ...
... identity with culture rather than birth ; 34 the continuation and elaboration of a stereotyped portrayal of the wealth and decadence of the eastern barbarian in Xenophon , Plato , and fragmentary historians such as Ctesias ; the ...
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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