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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... seen as the originators of many of the key features which distinguish ' western ' civilisation , so many of the less attractive intellectual movements of western history have seen their justifications in Greek antiquity . To be a ...
... seen as the originators of many of the key features which distinguish ' western ' civilisation , so many of the less attractive intellectual movements of western history have seen their justifications in Greek antiquity . To be a ...
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... seen to respond - though not in any simple or direct fashion - to the history of events . The first major such event was the repulse of the Persian invasions of Greece , known collectively as the Persian Wars ( 490-479 ) . The Persian ...
... seen to respond - though not in any simple or direct fashion - to the history of events . The first major such event was the repulse of the Persian invasions of Greece , known collectively as the Persian Wars ( 490-479 ) . The Persian ...
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... seen as comparing the Persian empire with the Athenian empire that developed in the light of the Persian Wars , and as offering an implicit critique of Athenian imperialism ( rather than simply a glorification of Athens ) .26 Herodotus ...
... seen as comparing the Persian empire with the Athenian empire that developed in the light of the Persian Wars , and as offering an implicit critique of Athenian imperialism ( rather than simply a glorification of Athens ) .26 Herodotus ...
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Contents
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SOURCES | 15 |
THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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