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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... authors – notably Herodotus – may have taken pride in the setting straight of their contemporaries ' conceptions of foreign peoples ( notwithstanding the schematic nature of their own accounts ) . In general , however , there was likely ...
... authors – notably Herodotus – may have taken pride in the setting straight of their contemporaries ' conceptions of foreign peoples ( notwithstanding the schematic nature of their own accounts ) . In general , however , there was likely ...
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... authors whose work is contained in this volume arrive there as specialists in very disparate fields : Greek tragedy ( Goldhill , Saïd ) , Athenian art ( Lissarrague ) , philology ( Morpurgo Davies ) , the history of religion ( Rudhardt ) ...
... authors whose work is contained in this volume arrive there as specialists in very disparate fields : Greek tragedy ( Goldhill , Saïd ) , Athenian art ( Lissarrague ) , philology ( Morpurgo Davies ) , the history of religion ( Rudhardt ) ...
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... author , more than any other , who has emphasised the chauvinism implicit in the play and Aeschylus ' contrast of Greek virtues and Persian vices ) and in the readings of most other modern critics . " I have argued elsewhere for an ...
... author , more than any other , who has emphasised the chauvinism implicit in the play and Aeschylus ' contrast of Greek virtues and Persian vices ) and in the readings of most other modern critics . " I have argued elsewhere for an ...
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... authors : Herodotus and Aeschylus both appear to draw from a common pool of knowledge of the Persian court.2 20 With Suzanne Saïd ( Ch . 3 ) , we turn then to the later problematisation of the Greek - barbarian antithesis by Euripides ...
... authors : Herodotus and Aeschylus both appear to draw from a common pool of knowledge of the Persian court.2 20 With Suzanne Saïd ( Ch . 3 ) , we turn then to the later problematisation of the Greek - barbarian antithesis by Euripides ...
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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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