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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... speech ( and the ' orientalising technique of portraying foreign languages by a spattering of foreign vocabulary interspersed in Greek ) , 14 and the impression of the immense wealth of the monarchies of the Near East ( an impression ...
... speech ( and the ' orientalising technique of portraying foreign languages by a spattering of foreign vocabulary interspersed in Greek ) , 14 and the impression of the immense wealth of the monarchies of the Near East ( an impression ...
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... speech by a spattering of foreign words . 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 ...
... speech by a spattering of foreign words . 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 ...
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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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