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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... Interpretations Committee liaises with the US Emerging Issues Task Force and similar bodies and standard setters to preserve convergence at the level of interpretation. Working relationships are set up with local standard setters who ...
... Interpretations Committee liaises with the US Emerging Issues Task Force and similar bodies and standard setters to preserve convergence at the level of interpretation. Working relationships are set up with local standard setters who ...
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... interpretation is not. Interpretation is not a reconstruction of exactly what happened. Interpretation does not discern 'what was going forward'. Interpretation does not settle disagreements among competing interpretations, histories ...
... interpretation is not. Interpretation is not a reconstruction of exactly what happened. Interpretation does not discern 'what was going forward'. Interpretation does not settle disagreements among competing interpretations, histories ...
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... interpretation. But how do reading and interpretation relate? After distinguishing seven distinct notions of meaning, I offer a general account of interpretation according to which, roughly, an interpretation of text T is a statement of ...
... interpretation. But how do reading and interpretation relate? After distinguishing seven distinct notions of meaning, I offer a general account of interpretation according to which, roughly, an interpretation of text T is a statement of ...
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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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