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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... less attractive intellectual movements of western history have seen their justifications in Greek antiquity . To be a European , Edward Said wrote in his enormously influential essay Orientalism , means to belong to a part of the earth ...
... less attractive intellectual movements of western history have seen their justifications in Greek antiquity . To be a European , Edward Said wrote in his enormously influential essay Orientalism , means to belong to a part of the earth ...
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... less attractive aspects of the classical tradition is vital , not only to free ourselves from their grip , but also in order better to understand the reality of the ancient past , to prevent the retrospective projection of monolithic ...
... less attractive aspects of the classical tradition is vital , not only to free ourselves from their grip , but also in order better to understand the reality of the ancient past , to prevent the retrospective projection of monolithic ...
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... less marked in the period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature of many archaic Greek poleis , the aspiration of many aristocratic youths.16 Homer's Trojans in most respects are portrayed as sharing in the same culture and way ...
... less marked in the period before the Persian Wars : tyranny was a feature of many archaic Greek poleis , the aspiration of many aristocratic youths.16 Homer's Trojans in most respects are portrayed as sharing in the same culture and way ...
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... less , it would have been impossible to compile a book resembling this one even in the early 1980s . In talking of ethnic origins ' historians now have in mind the imagined origins of a people , the way in which the Greeks or others ...
... less , it would have been impossible to compile a book resembling this one even in the early 1980s . In talking of ethnic origins ' historians now have in mind the imagined origins of a people , the way in which the Greeks or others ...
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... less interesting or valuable as literature or art ; 78 nor is it to single out their creators as uniquely chauvinist . It is rather to attempt to understand them in the context of a broader Greek culture , and to see the Greeks - and ...
... less interesting or valuable as literature or art ; 78 nor is it to single out their creators as uniquely chauvinist . It is rather to attempt to understand them in the context of a broader Greek culture , and to see the Greeks - and ...
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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