Greeks and Barbarians

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Thomas Harrison
Taylor & Francis, 2002 - 336 pages
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
 

Contents

General Introduction I
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3 the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden fig 4 the Museum
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of Fine Arts Boston fig 5 the Archaeological Institute of
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Introduction to Part I
17
The Athenian Image of the Foreigner ΙΟΙ
101
Introduction to Part II
127
When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernals Ancient Model
133
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147
The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions
172
Introduction to Part III
189
The Greeks as Egyptologists
211
Introduction to Part IV
231
From Antiquity to the Renaissance
257
The Construction of the Other
278
Intellectual Chronology
311
Index
328

The Greek Notion of Dialect
153

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Page vii - Note to the Reader The articles and excerpts included in this book were originally published in a range of different journals and books. A degree of uniformity has been imposed (for example, in the abbreviations used), but many of the conventions of the original pieces have been preserved. This applies to spelling (UK or US) and to different modes of referencing: chapters using the Harvard (ie name and date) system are followed by individual bibliographies; those using 'short titles' usually have...
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