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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... Orient almost since the time of Homer ' . 4 Aeschylus ' play the Persians has been described ( by Edith Hall ) as ' the first unmistakable file in the archive of Orientalism , the discourse by which the European imagination has ...
... Orient almost since the time of Homer ' . 4 Aeschylus ' play the Persians has been described ( by Edith Hall ) as ' the first unmistakable file in the archive of Orientalism , the discourse by which the European imagination has ...
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... oriental despotism – were very much 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 ...
... oriental despotism – were very much 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 ...
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... oriental decadence but in a spirit of apparent openness . The Persian Wars organised such stereotypes of the east , sharpening the focus , for example , of the contrasts between eastern luxury and Greek simplicity , despotism and ...
... oriental decadence but in a spirit of apparent openness . The Persian Wars organised such stereotypes of the east , sharpening the focus , for example , of the contrasts between eastern luxury and Greek simplicity , despotism and ...
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... Orient ' ; Weiler , Soziogenese ' ; Descoeudres , Greek Colonists and Native Populations ; Tsetskhladze and de Angelis , The Archaeology of Greek Colonisation ; Tsetskhladze , The Greek Colonization of the Black Sea Area ; see also Chs ...
... Orient ' ; Weiler , Soziogenese ' ; Descoeudres , Greek Colonists and Native Populations ; Tsetskhladze and de Angelis , The Archaeology of Greek Colonisation ; Tsetskhladze , The Greek Colonization of the Black Sea Area ; see also Chs ...
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... Oriental luxuries in dress and household property ' . See here my comments on Griffith , ' The King and Eye ' , The Emptiness of Asia , pp . 105-8 . $ 7 Miller acknowledges ( fleetingly ) the existence of such pejorative portrayals ( pp ...
... Oriental luxuries in dress and household property ' . See here my comments on Griffith , ' The King and Eye ' , The Emptiness of Asia , pp . 105-8 . $ 7 Miller acknowledges ( fleetingly ) the existence of such pejorative portrayals ( pp ...
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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