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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For Near Eastern influences on Homer , see now Morris , ' Homer and the Near East ” . For contacts , see further below , n . 48 . 19 Contrast Jonathan Hall's over - simplistic distinction , Ethnic Identity , p .
For Near Eastern influences on Homer , see now Morris , ' Homer and the Near East ” . For contacts , see further below , n . 48 . 19 Contrast Jonathan Hall's over - simplistic distinction , Ethnic Identity , p .
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28 See now Harrison , ' The Persian invasions ' ; contrast Hall , Ethnic Identity p . 45 ( citing Nippel , Griechen , Barbaren und ' Wilde ' , pp . 14-16 ) , asserting simplistically that no adverse comparison between Greeks and ...
28 See now Harrison , ' The Persian invasions ' ; contrast Hall , Ethnic Identity p . 45 ( citing Nippel , Griechen , Barbaren und ' Wilde ' , pp . 14-16 ) , asserting simplistically that no adverse comparison between Greeks and ...
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For contact between Greeks and foreign peoples , see also e.g. Austin , Greece and Egypt in the Archaic Age ; Burstein , ' Greek contact with Egypt and the Levant ; Hall , Ethnic Identity , pp . 46–7 ; Lewis , Sparta and Persia ; Starr ...
For contact between Greeks and foreign peoples , see also e.g. Austin , Greece and Egypt in the Archaic Age ; Burstein , ' Greek contact with Egypt and the Levant ; Hall , Ethnic Identity , pp . 46–7 ; Lewis , Sparta and Persia ; Starr ...
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Many aspects of the subject - the interest in the term barbaros or in the ethnic origins of the Greeks – are the same now as they were for Julius Jüthner68 and others in the first half of the twentieth century .
Many aspects of the subject - the interest in the term barbaros or in the ethnic origins of the Greeks – are the same now as they were for Julius Jüthner68 and others in the first half of the twentieth century .
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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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