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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... 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 dominated Asia ... by conceptualising its inhabitants as ...
... 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 dominated Asia ... by conceptualising its inhabitants as ...
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... 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 Tourist ( Ch . I ) demonstrates , the ...
... 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 Tourist ( Ch . I ) demonstrates , the ...
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... play – the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa – or that , when 8 * See e.g. Romm , ' Herodotus and mythic geography ' , The Edges of the Earth ; Gianotti , ' Ordine e simmetria ' . Lloyd , Polarity and Analogy ; Cartledge , The ...
... play – the court of the Persian king Xerxes at Susa – or that , when 8 * See e.g. Romm , ' Herodotus and mythic geography ' , The Edges of the Earth ; Gianotti , ' Ordine e simmetria ' . Lloyd , Polarity and Analogy ; Cartledge , The ...
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... play is more conventional . Like many of the play's modern interpreters , he sees it as strikingly sympathetic to the plight of the defeated Persians : for Aeschylus to have composed a kommos ( or lament ) for a defeated enemy is a ...
... play is more conventional . Like many of the play's modern interpreters , he sees it as strikingly sympathetic to the plight of the defeated Persians : for Aeschylus to have composed a kommos ( or lament ) for a defeated enemy is a ...
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... 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 ? 19 The play can also be ...
... 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 ? 19 The play can also be ...
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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