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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Contents vii ix Acknowledgements Note to the Reader Abbreviations Maps X xiv General Introduction I PART I SOURCES 17 I 24 Introduction to Part I Herodotus the Tourist James Redfield Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus ' Persae ...
Contents vii ix Acknowledgements Note to the Reader Abbreviations Maps X xiv General Introduction I PART I SOURCES 17 I 24 Introduction to Part I Herodotus the Tourist James Redfield Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus ' Persae ...
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... autonomous city - states ( or poleis ) , motivated by droughts and political tensions at home as well as by the desire for trade , co - ordinated , if at all , only by the oracular shrine of Delphi . ' Only in the Hellenistic period ...
... autonomous city - states ( or poleis ) , motivated by droughts and political tensions at home as well as by the desire for trade , co - ordinated , if at all , only by the oracular shrine of Delphi . ' Only in the Hellenistic period ...
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... conquests led not only to the establishment of a series of ' successor kingdoms ' and to the foundation of Greek settlements as far afield as modern Afghanistan , 37 but also to the political marginalisation of the old Greek world .
... conquests led not only to the establishment of a series of ' successor kingdoms ' and to the foundation of Greek settlements as far afield as modern Afghanistan , 37 but also to the political marginalisation of the old Greek world .
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... in myth , and in political and social organisation.os We have also to allow for the differing imagination , curiosity and blinkered vision of individual authors . Herodotus , for example , as James Redfield's piece ( “ Herodotus the ...
... in myth , and in political and social organisation.os We have also to allow for the differing imagination , curiosity and blinkered vision of individual authors . Herodotus , for example , as James Redfield's piece ( “ Herodotus the ...
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As for the range of themes covered , there is no dedicated discussion included of the ' gendering of foreign peoples , of the representation of foreign women , or of the political contrast pointed between Greek democracy and eastern ...
As for the range of themes covered , there is no dedicated discussion included of the ' gendering of foreign peoples , of the representation of foreign women , or of the political contrast pointed between Greek democracy and eastern ...
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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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