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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... Century , Margaret Miller has collated a mass of fragments of evidence to suggest that ' over the later sixth and fifth centuries a comparatively large proportion of Athenian adult males ... had some personal experience of the peoples ...
... Century , Margaret Miller has collated a mass of fragments of evidence to suggest that ' over the later sixth and fifth centuries a comparatively large proportion of Athenian adult males ... had some personal experience of the peoples ...
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... century doctor in the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes , Ctesias of Cnidus . Much heat but little light has been produced by controversy over the actual extent of Herodotus ' travels : Herodotus has been seen alternatively – and ...
... century doctor in the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes , Ctesias of Cnidus . Much heat but little light has been produced by controversy over the actual extent of Herodotus ' travels : Herodotus has been seen alternatively – and ...
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... century Attic comedies . In the surviving plays of Aristophanes foreign peoples do not feature centrally . Rather they appear in brief cameos such as the Scythian archer scene in the Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ...
... century Attic comedies . In the surviving plays of Aristophanes foreign peoples do not feature centrally . Rather they appear in brief cameos such as the Scythian archer scene in the Thesmophoriazousae 24 or the longawaited return of ...
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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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