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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Other abbreviations have , in general , been avoided . The following abbreviations are contained within the republished articles : ap . ( quoted by ) , op . cit . ( the same work as cited earlier ) , id . ( the same author ) , ibid .
Other abbreviations have , in general , been avoided . The following abbreviations are contained within the republished articles : ap . ( quoted by ) , op . cit . ( the same work as cited earlier ) , id . ( the same author ) , ibid .
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9 Aeschylus ' celebration of Athenian and Greek victory in his Persians ( 472 ) contains many of the contrasts between Asia and Greece that were to be developed by later authors : between the unaccountable monarchy of the Persians and ...
9 Aeschylus ' celebration of Athenian and Greek victory in his Persians ( 472 ) contains many of the contrasts between Asia and Greece that were to be developed by later authors : between the unaccountable monarchy of the Persians and ...
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... between Greeks : differences in religious cult , in language , in myth , and in political and social organisation.os We have also to allow for the differing imagination , curiosity and blinkered vision of individual authors .
... between Greeks : differences in religious cult , in language , in myth , and in political and social organisation.os We have also to allow for the differing imagination , curiosity and blinkered vision of individual authors .
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1.134 ) .46 Other authors similarly confound any simple Greek - barbarian antithesis . How are we to understand the contradictions within Xenophon , between his lifelike account of the expedition of the ' Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries ...
1.134 ) .46 Other authors similarly confound any simple Greek - barbarian antithesis . How are we to understand the contradictions within Xenophon , between his lifelike account of the expedition of the ' Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries ...
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For the more theoretical perspective of fourthcentury authors - Xenophon , Isocrates , Plato , Aristotle - the reader is referred to other chapters ( Hartog , Briant , Nippel , Walbank ) . Almost all the sources ( including the artistic ...
For the more theoretical perspective of fourthcentury authors - Xenophon , Isocrates , Plato , Aristotle - the reader is referred to other chapters ( Hartog , Briant , Nippel , Walbank ) . Almost all the sources ( including the artistic ...
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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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