Greeks and Barbarians

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- General Introduction -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- THE ORGANISATION OF THIS VOLUME -- PART I: SOURCES -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Herodotus the Tourist -- 2 Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus' Persae -- 3 Greeks and Barbarians in Euripides' Tragedies: The End of Differences? -- 1 THE BARBARIAN: A REALITY ON STAGE? -- 2 THE BARBARIAN: A CHANT? -- 3 THE IMAGE OF THE BARBARIAN:REALITY OR FANTASY? -- 4 THE BARBARISM OF THE GREEKS -- 4 The Athenian Image of the Foreigner -- 1 THE DISTANT, THE PICTURESQUE, THE EXOTIC -- 2 EXPERIENCING THE OTHER -- 3 THE HOPLITE AND HIS DOUBLES -- 4 MYTHICAL USES OF THE 'OTHER' -- PART II: THEMES -- Introduction to Part II -- 5 When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernal's 'Ancient Model -- THE ANCIENT MODEL -- SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE ETHNICITY -- DANA US -- COMPETITIVE GENEALOGIES -- ATHENIAN SOURCES -- FLUIDITY OF ETHNICITY IN MYTH -- ETHNICITY AS AN ARTICULATOROF ABSTRACTIONS -- CONCLUSION: MYTH AND HISTORY -- REFERENCES -- 6 The Greek Notion of Dialect -- 7 The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions -- I -- II -- PART III: PEOPLES -- Introduction to Part III -- 8 History and Ideology: The Greeks and 'Persian Decadence' -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 9 The Greeks as Egyptologists -- WHAT IS EGYPT? -- WHAT IS TRUE CIVILISATION?WHERE IS THE REAL CITY? -- THE LAND OF RELIGION -- PART IV: OVERVIEWS -- Introduction to Part IV -- 10 The Problem of Greek Nationality -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- 11 Greeks and Others: From Antiquity to the Renaissance -- 12 The Construction of the 'Other' -- 1 GREEKS AND BARBARIANS -- 1 Cultural contacts and the sense of a common Greek identity -- 2 Geography, ethnology and anthropology -- 3 The politicisation of the Greek/Barbarian contrast