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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... later in this volume ( Ch . 12 ) , the foundation for later justifications of Spanish colonialism . To observe such continuities is not simply , however , to indict classical culture , to suggest that it is retrospectively “ tainted ...
... later in this volume ( Ch . 12 ) , the foundation for later justifications of Spanish colonialism . To observe such continuities is not simply , however , to indict classical culture , to suggest that it is retrospectively “ tainted ...
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... later Greek - barbarian antithesis , however – in particular , the contrast between Greek democracy and oriental despotism – were very much less marked in the period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature of many archaic Greek ...
... later Greek - barbarian antithesis , however – in particular , the contrast between Greek democracy and oriental despotism – were very much less marked in the period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature of many archaic Greek ...
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... later authors : between the unaccountable monarchy of the Persians and the effective , accountable democracy of Athens , between the slavish masses of the king's vast flotilla and the small band of Greeks , each ' the lord of his oar ...
... later authors : between the unaccountable monarchy of the Persians and the effective , accountable democracy of Athens , between the slavish masses of the king's vast flotilla and the small band of Greeks , each ' the lord of his oar ...
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... later Greek and European history , and to represent the richness and diversity of modern scholarship on these themes . Part I examines some of the major sources for the Greek conception of the barbarian : the fifth - century historian ...
... later Greek and European history , and to represent the richness and diversity of modern scholarship on these themes . Part I examines some of the major sources for the Greek conception of the barbarian : the fifth - century historian ...
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... later Greek history . Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The Construction of the " other " ) , we turn to a still broader history , to the use of Greek categories in modern European thought , in justification of colonialism or in modern ...
... later Greek history . Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The Construction of the " other " ) , we turn to a still broader history , to the use of Greek categories in modern European thought , in justification of colonialism or in modern ...
Contents
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SOURCES | 15 |
THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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