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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... interpreted on the erroneous assumption that Aeschylus intended to give an accurate impression of the setting of his play - the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa - or that , when + See e.g. Romm , ' Herodotus and mythic geography ...
... interpreted on the erroneous assumption that Aeschylus intended to give an accurate impression of the setting of his play - the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa - or that , when + See e.g. Romm , ' Herodotus and mythic geography ...
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... interpretation of Edith Hall ( the author , more than any other , who has emphasised the chauvinism implicit in the play and Aeschylus ' contrast of Greek virtues and Persian vices ) and in the readings of most other modern critics ...
... interpretation of Edith Hall ( the author , more than any other , who has emphasised the chauvinism implicit in the play and Aeschylus ' contrast of Greek virtues and Persian vices ) and in the readings of most other modern critics ...
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... interpretation of the Eurymedon vase - that the impending penetration of the Persian ' Eurymedon ' ( the name of a battle between the Athenians and Persians ) by a Greek suggests the moral that , in Kenneth Dover's words , ' we've ...
... interpretation of the Eurymedon vase - that the impending penetration of the Persian ' Eurymedon ' ( the name of a battle between the Athenians and Persians ) by a Greek suggests the moral that , in Kenneth Dover's words , ' we've ...
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... interpreted as evidence of the meagreness of Persian cultural influence . The same evidence , by the slightest ... interpretation of such contacts - that they necessarily contradict , or work against , Greek prejudices against the ...
... interpreted as evidence of the meagreness of Persian cultural influence . The same evidence , by the slightest ... interpretation of such contacts - that they necessarily contradict , or work against , Greek prejudices against 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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