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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Aristotle's idea of ' natural slavery ' ( a theory , as we will see , rooted in earlier , See Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 61–2 . ? See Pryke , ' Nationalism and sexuality ' ; for the invention of a British identity in ...
Aristotle's idea of ' natural slavery ' ( a theory , as we will see , rooted in earlier , See Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 61–2 . ? See Pryke , ' Nationalism and sexuality ' ; for the invention of a British identity in ...
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... the schematic nature of their own accounts ) . In general , however , there was likely to have been little impetus to distinguish between ' genuine ' and false knowledge . There is another reason for initially distinguishing between ...
... the schematic nature of their own accounts ) . In general , however , there was likely to have been little impetus to distinguish between ' genuine ' and false knowledge . There is another reason for initially distinguishing between ...
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In another sense , however , they provide a natural starting point . ... for example , in nature , in climate , in geography , and in a whole range of human customs or nomoi – and introduce an enormous range of ' barbarians ' .
In another sense , however , they provide a natural starting point . ... for example , in nature , in climate , in geography , and in a whole range of human customs or nomoi – and introduce an enormous range of ' barbarians ' .
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In his ' Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus ' Persae ' ( Ch . 2 ) , Simon Goldhill – following on from his earlier work emphasising the essentially civic nature of Greek drama'4 - instead places the play's representation of the ...
In his ' Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus ' Persae ' ( Ch . 2 ) , Simon Goldhill – following on from his earlier work emphasising the essentially civic nature of Greek drama'4 - instead places the play's representation of the ...
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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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