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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... King Croesus ) all long predate the Persian Wars.'s Other aspects of the later Greek - barbarian antithesis , however – in particular , the contrast between Greek democracy and oriental despotism – were very much less marked in the ...
... King Croesus ) all long predate the Persian Wars.'s Other aspects of the later Greek - barbarian antithesis , however – in particular , the contrast between Greek democracy and oriental despotism – were very much less marked in the ...
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... king's vast flotilla and the small band of Greeks , each ' the lord of his oar ' , between the empty pomp of the Persian court ( with its deference to god - like kings and the excessive authority of royal women ) and the masculine ...
... king's vast flotilla and the small band of Greeks , each ' the lord of his oar ' , between the empty pomp of the Persian court ( with its deference to god - like kings and the excessive authority of royal women ) and the masculine ...
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... king continued to serve as the guarantor of a series of settlements between the cities of Greece in the fourth century . Ideology , however , has a life of its own , and does not merely respond to the history of events . The ...
... king continued to serve as the guarantor of a series of settlements between the cities of Greece in the fourth century . Ideology , however , has a life of its own , and does not merely respond to the history of events . The ...
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... kings became frozen in the atavistic desire to expand their empire , and their subjects ruined by its spoils.44 The Greeks themselves , moreover , were far from being a homogeneous group . Though the projection of a barbarian ' other ...
... kings became frozen in the atavistic desire to expand their empire , and their subjects ruined by its spoils.44 The Greeks themselves , moreover , were far from being a homogeneous group . Though the projection of a barbarian ' other ...
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... king - whose actual experience of foreign peoples led them to eschew the prejudices of their fellow Greeks , even , like the Athenian Themistocles , to learn a foreign language.59 One such Greek - of whom we hear from a piece of ...
... king - whose actual experience of foreign peoples led them to eschew the prejudices of their fellow Greeks , even , like the Athenian Themistocles , to learn a foreign language.59 One such Greek - of whom we hear from a piece 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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