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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... Athens . The Histories are increasingly ( and rightly ) 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 ...
... Athens . The Histories are increasingly ( and rightly ) 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 ...
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... Athens , and as the single most significant off - stage presence in relations between the Greek cities.3 " Notoriously under - represented in Thucydides ' account of the Peloponnesian War , 32 the financial support of the Persians was ...
... Athens , and as the single most significant off - stage presence in relations between the Greek cities.3 " Notoriously under - represented in Thucydides ' account of the Peloponnesian War , 32 the financial support of the Persians was ...
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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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... Athens . The extent to which the pejorative attitudes represented , say , in Aeschylus ' Persians reflect a broader Greek perception of the Persians or of the ' barbarian ' is , as we have seen , one of the central ( and most ...
... Athens . The extent to which the pejorative attitudes represented , say , in Aeschylus ' Persians reflect a broader Greek perception of the Persians or of the ' barbarian ' is , as we have seen , one of the central ( and most ...
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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