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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... THEMES Introduction to Part II 127 5 When is a Myth Not a Myth ? Bernal's ' Ancient Model ' Edith Hall 133 153 6 The Greek Notion of Dialect Anna Morpurgo Davies 172 7 The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions Jean Rudhardt Contents.
... THEMES Introduction to Part II 127 5 When is a Myth Not a Myth ? Bernal's ' Ancient Model ' Edith Hall 133 153 6 The Greek Notion of Dialect Anna Morpurgo Davies 172 7 The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions Jean Rudhardt Contents.
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... themes of history . It is a theme that can be traced in any number of historical contexts : the Chinese Han dynasty's image of foreign peoples as illiterate nomads , the sexual stereotypes of the French ( promiscuous , irresponsible ) ...
... themes of history . It is a theme that can be traced in any number of historical contexts : the Chinese Han dynasty's image of foreign peoples as illiterate nomads , the sexual stereotypes of the French ( promiscuous , irresponsible ) ...
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... themes . Part I examines some of the major sources for the Greek conception of the barbarian : the fifth - century historian Herodotus ( Ch . 1 : Redfield ) , the Athenian tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides ( Chs 2-3 : Goldhill , Saïd ) ...
... themes . Part I examines some of the major sources for the Greek conception of the barbarian : the fifth - century historian Herodotus ( Ch . 1 : Redfield ) , the Athenian tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides ( Chs 2-3 : Goldhill , Saïd ) ...
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... themes , to display a broad spectrum of foreign peoples , and to give some sense of the variety of modern approaches . With the exception in particular of the overviews of Browning and Nippel , of Hall's treatment of archaic myth , or ...
... themes , to display a broad spectrum of foreign peoples , and to give some sense of the variety of modern approaches . With the exception in particular of the overviews of Browning and Nippel , of Hall's treatment of archaic myth , or ...
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... theme has advanced ; nevertheless , Hall is sometimes distracted by questions of the veracity of the play irrelevant to her theme of Greek representation : see Harrison , Emptiness of Asia , Ch . 3 . 57 See e.g. the vague remarks of ...
... theme has advanced ; nevertheless , Hall is sometimes distracted by questions of the veracity of the play irrelevant to her theme of Greek representation : see Harrison , Emptiness of Asia , Ch . 3 . 57 See e.g. the vague remarks of ...
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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