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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99 ; for this and other such structural polarities as characteristic of Greek thought , see Lloyd , Polarity and Analogy ; more accessibly Cartledge , The Greeks . less theoretically self - conscious , representations of the societies I ...
99 ; for this and other such structural polarities as characteristic of Greek thought , see Lloyd , Polarity and Analogy ; more accessibly Cartledge , The Greeks . less theoretically self - conscious , representations of the societies I ...
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... century thought on the barbarian also had an aggressive aspect in its rallying call for a campaign of revenge against Persia ; this call was answered in the campaign planned by the Macedonian king Philip and subsequently executed by ...
... century thought on the barbarian also had an aggressive aspect in its rallying call for a campaign of revenge against Persia ; this call was answered in the campaign planned by the Macedonian king Philip and subsequently executed by ...
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To begin with , it gives a disproportionate weight to the Persians , obscuring the diversity of different barbarian peoples in Greek thought . Though the Greeks on occasion spoke as if barbarians constituted a single homogeneous group39 ...
To begin with , it gives a disproportionate weight to the Persians , obscuring the diversity of different barbarian peoples in Greek thought . Though the Greeks on occasion spoke as if barbarians constituted a single homogeneous group39 ...
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Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The Construction of the " other " ) , we turn to a still broader history , to the use of Greek categories in modern European thought , in justification of colonialism or in modern scholarship on the ...
Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The Construction of the " other " ) , we turn to a still broader history , to the use of Greek categories in modern European thought , in justification of colonialism or in modern scholarship on the ...
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recent work on ' mythical geography 4 and on polarity in Greek thought , ' and general works on Herodotus ' treatment of foreign peoples . Herodotus must also be seen in the context of other fifthcentury writers on barbarian peoples ...
recent work on ' mythical geography 4 and on polarity in Greek thought , ' and general works on Herodotus ' treatment of foreign peoples . Herodotus must also be seen in the context of other fifthcentury writers on barbarian peoples ...
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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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