Greeks and BarbariansGreeks 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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less theoretically self - conscious , representations of the societies of the Near East ) , provided , as Wilfried Nippel recounts later in this volume ( Ch . 12 ) , the foundation for later justifications of Spanish colonialism .
less theoretically self - conscious , representations of the societies of the Near East ) , provided , as Wilfried Nippel recounts later in this volume ( Ch . 12 ) , the foundation for later justifications of Spanish colonialism .
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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 period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature ...
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 period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature ...
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9 Aeschylus ' celebration of Athenian and Greek victory in his Persians ( 472 ) contains many of the contrasts between Asia and Greece that were to be developed by later authors : between the unaccountable monarchy of the Persians and ...
9 Aeschylus ' celebration of Athenian and Greek victory in his Persians ( 472 ) contains many of the contrasts between Asia and Greece that were to be developed by later authors : between the unaccountable monarchy of the Persians and ...
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... Greeks ' responses to foreign peoples ; it is also to examine the influence of the Greeks ' ideas and images in later Greek and European history , and to represent the richness and diversity of modern scholarship on these themes .
... Greeks ' responses to foreign peoples ; it is also to examine the influence of the Greeks ' ideas and images in later Greek and European history , and to represent the richness and diversity of modern scholarship on these themes .
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The Byzantinist Robert Browning ( Ch . 11 ) surveys the continuing potency of the Greek - barbarian antithesis in later Greek history . Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The Construction of the " other " ) , we turn to a still broader ...
The Byzantinist Robert Browning ( Ch . 11 ) surveys the continuing potency of the Greek - barbarian antithesis in later Greek history . Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The Construction of the " other " ) , we turn to a still broader ...
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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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| Title | Greeks and Barbarians |
| Editor | Thomas Harrison |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1351565036, 9781351565035 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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