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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... are often seen as the originators of many of the key features which distinguish ' western ' civilisation , so many of the less attractive intellectual movements of western history have seen their justifications in Greek antiquity .
... are often seen as the originators of many of the key features which distinguish ' western ' civilisation , so many of the less attractive intellectual movements of western history have seen their justifications in Greek antiquity .
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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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... of the Greeks – are the same now as they were for Julius Jüthner68 and others in the first half of the twentieth century . None the less , it would have been impossible to compile a book resembling this one even in the early 1980s .
... of the Greeks – are the same now as they were for Julius Jüthner68 and others in the first half of the twentieth century . None the less , it would have been impossible to compile a book resembling this one even in the early 1980s .
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... or to trace the legacy of such attitudes , is not to condemn such works wholesale , to suggest that they are any less interesting or valuable as literature or art ; 78 nor is it to single out their creators as uniquely chauvinist .
... or to trace the legacy of such attitudes , is not to condemn such works wholesale , to suggest that they are any less interesting or valuable as literature or art ; 78 nor is it to single out their creators as uniquely chauvinist .
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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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