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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... Athenian evacuation of Attica during the Persian Wars ; 4 ' the Thracians , archetypally ferocious and venial ; 42 the Egyptians , proverbial for their religious scruples , and for the depth of their knowledge of human history ; 43 the ...
... Athenian evacuation of Attica during the Persian Wars ; 4 ' the Thracians , archetypally ferocious and venial ; 42 the Egyptians , proverbial for their religious scruples , and for the depth of their knowledge of human history ; 43 the ...
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... Athenian tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides ( Chs 2-3 : Goldhill , Saïd ) , and , finally , classical Athenian art ( Ch . 4 : Lissarrague ) . Part II then looks in more detail at a number of themes across a broader range of sources ...
... Athenian tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides ( Chs 2-3 : Goldhill , Saïd ) , and , finally , classical Athenian art ( Ch . 4 : Lissarrague ) . Part II then looks in more detail at a number of themes across a broader range of sources ...
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... Athenian adult males ... had some personal experience of the peoples of the Persian empire'.48 This experience occurred in a variety of forms : through the service of Greeks in the Persian court of Persepolis ; 49 through the settlement ...
... Athenian adult males ... had some personal experience of the peoples of the Persian empire'.48 This experience occurred in a variety of forms : through the service of Greeks in the Persian court of Persepolis ; 49 through the settlement ...
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... Athenian ideal of austerity in dress . 58 Another approach would be to argue that the images of foreign peoples contained in literary sources operate on a different level from ' real life ' . There may have been many Greeks tradesmen ...
... Athenian ideal of austerity in dress . 58 Another approach would be to argue that the images of foreign peoples contained in literary sources operate on a different level from ' real life ' . There may have been many Greeks tradesmen ...
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... Athenian potters intended to distinguish accurately the differing characteristics of various foreign peoples , or that Aeschylus felt obliged to give an accurate portrayal of the Persian court.63 It should be stated at the outset that ...
... Athenian potters intended to distinguish accurately the differing characteristics of various foreign peoples , or that Aeschylus felt obliged to give an accurate portrayal of the Persian court.63 It should be stated at the outset that ...
Contents
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THEMES | 125 |
PEOPLES | 187 |
OVERVIEWS | 229 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
Guide to Further Reading | 313 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 328 |
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