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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To be a European , Edward Said wrote in his enormously influential essay Orientalism , means to belong to a part of the earth with a definite history of involvement in the Orient almost since the time of Homer ' . 4 Aeschylus ' play the ...
To be a European , Edward Said wrote in his enormously influential essay Orientalism , means to belong to a part of the earth with a definite history of involvement in the Orient almost since the time of Homer ' . 4 Aeschylus ' play the ...
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That privilege goes to Aeschylus ' play the Persians , performed in 472 BC within a decade of Xerxes ' expedition to Greece . In another sense , however , they provide a natural starting point . As James Redfield's ' Herodotus the ...
That privilege goes to Aeschylus ' play the Persians , performed in 472 BC within a decade of Xerxes ' expedition to Greece . In another sense , however , they provide a natural starting point . As James Redfield's ' Herodotus the ...
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As the only surviving ' historical tragedy ' from classical Athens , however , it has often been interpreted on the erroneous assumption that Aeschylus intended to give an accurate impression of the setting of his play – the court of ...
As the only surviving ' historical tragedy ' from classical Athens , however , it has often been interpreted on the erroneous assumption that Aeschylus intended to give an accurate impression of the setting of his play – the court of ...
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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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This concentration on the play's visual and aural dimensions , however , can obscure other aspects : how , for example , are we to understand Aeschylus ' unrealistic elevation of Xerxes ' father Darius into a positive model of kingship ...
This concentration on the play's visual and aural dimensions , however , can obscure other aspects : how , for example , are we to understand Aeschylus ' unrealistic elevation of Xerxes ' father Darius into a positive model of kingship ...
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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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