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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... turn , the persistent Greek idea of Persian decadence ' ( Ch . 8 : Briant ) and the special status accorded to Egypt by the Greeks as a source of , in particular religious , wisdom ( Ch . 9 : Hartog ) . 46 For Egyptian attitudes to ...
... turn , the persistent Greek idea of Persian decadence ' ( Ch . 8 : Briant ) and the special status accorded to Egypt by the Greeks as a source of , in particular religious , wisdom ( Ch . 9 : Hartog ) . 46 For Egyptian attitudes to ...
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... 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 ancient world . The aim in selecting these pieces has been to satisfy a number ...
... 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 ancient world . The aim in selecting these pieces has been to satisfy a number ...
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... turning on its head the Greek idea of the barbaros ( a term which seems originally to have desig$ See e.g. Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 66–9 ; see further below , Ch . 4 ( Lissarrague ) , introduction to Part II . 56 Miller ...
... turning on its head the Greek idea of the barbaros ( a term which seems originally to have desig$ See e.g. Hall , Inventing the Barbarian , pp . 66–9 ; see further below , Ch . 4 ( Lissarrague ) , introduction to Part II . 56 Miller ...
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... turn then to the later problematisation of the Greek - barbarian antithesis by Euripides . Saïd shows how Greek conceptions of the imagined wealth , the innate slavishness and the barbarity of barbarian peoples are repeatedly undermined ...
... turn then to the later problematisation of the Greek - barbarian antithesis by Euripides . Saïd shows how Greek conceptions of the imagined wealth , the innate slavishness and the barbarity of barbarian peoples are repeatedly undermined ...
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Contents
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| 15 | |
THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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