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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... tradition , which survived even to the nineteenth century , that Englishmen had tails ' which they cunningly concealed ' . } In the study of the representation of foreign peoples , however , the Greeks occupy a special place . For just ...
... tradition , which survived even to the nineteenth century , that Englishmen had tails ' which they cunningly concealed ' . } In the study of the representation of foreign peoples , however , the Greeks occupy a special place . For just ...
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... tradition is vital , not only to free ourselves from their grip , but also in order better to understand the reality of the ancient past , to prevent the retrospective projection of monolithic , modern categories onto the ancient world ...
... tradition is vital , not only to free ourselves from their grip , but also in order better to understand the reality of the ancient past , to prevent the retrospective projection of monolithic , modern categories onto the ancient world ...
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... tradition of the Persian Wars , one which sees the Greeks ' victory as due to their innate freedom , the pattern of Persian error as the result of their monarchy , and their lack of proper reverence for the gods . The end of the Persian ...
... tradition of the Persian Wars , one which sees the Greeks ' victory as due to their innate freedom , the pattern of Persian error as the result of their monarchy , and their lack of proper reverence for the gods . The end of the Persian ...
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... traditions iraniennes , ' Les communautés d'Orientaux ' ; Vickers , ' Interactions between Greeks and Persians ' . 5. See also , on embassies , Mosley , ' Greeks , barbarians , language and contact , Envoys and Diplomacy in Ancient ...
... traditions iraniennes , ' Les communautés d'Orientaux ' ; Vickers , ' Interactions between Greeks and Persians ' . 5. See also , on embassies , Mosley , ' Greeks , barbarians , language and contact , Envoys and Diplomacy in Ancient ...
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Thomas Harrison. 57 analogues , ss the deformation of the native traditions of a foreign people for Greek ideological ends : all these may be taken to suggest a relative ignorance of , and indifference towards , the people in question ...
Thomas Harrison. 57 analogues , ss the deformation of the native traditions of a foreign people for Greek ideological ends : all these may be taken to suggest a relative ignorance of , and indifference towards , the people in question ...
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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