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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Redfield's distinction of ' hard ' and ' soft peoples , and his demonstration of how the Persians , initially hard , become soft through their conquests of the soft peoples of Asia , also show how Herodotus ' ethnography is vital to his ...
Redfield's distinction of ' hard ' and ' soft peoples , and his demonstration of how the Persians , initially hard , become soft through their conquests of the soft peoples of Asia , also show how Herodotus ' ethnography is vital to his ...
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Saïd shows how Greek conceptions of the imagined wealth , the innate slavishness and the barbarity of barbarian peoples are repeatedly undermined by the context in which they are introduced by the playwright : how , for example ...
Saïd shows how Greek conceptions of the imagined wealth , the innate slavishness and the barbarity of barbarian peoples are repeatedly undermined by the context in which they are introduced by the playwright : how , for example ...
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Similarly , the conclusion of Herodotus ' Histories shows – through the barbaric punishment of a Persian at the hands of the father of Pericles ( and through an ironic flashback to the height of the ' hardness ' of the Persians ) – the ...
Similarly , the conclusion of Herodotus ' Histories shows – through the barbaric punishment of a Persian at the hands of the father of Pericles ( and through an ironic flashback to the height of the ' hardness ' of the Persians ) – the ...
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... why the vase is a wine jug , why national characteristics are not more pronounced and why the act of penetration is not actually shown : ' If this is a triumph , why not show the moment of penetration , the triumphant act ?
... why the vase is a wine jug , why national characteristics are not more pronounced and why the act of penetration is not actually shown : ' If this is a triumph , why not show the moment of penetration , the triumphant act ?
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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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