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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... language , of a time removed from our own . The greater emphasis on representations rather than on the history of relations between Greeks and foreign peoples is again a recent change . The credit ( or blame ) for this shift must be ...
... language , of a time removed from our own . The greater emphasis on representations rather than on the history of relations between Greeks and foreign peoples is again a recent change . The credit ( or blame ) for this shift must be ...
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... language or customs . 23 26 Finally in this part , François Lissarrague ( Ch . 4 ) , like Suzanne Saïd , collapses ... languages in comedy , see below , introduction to Part II . 27 See also here Lissarrague's ' Être Scythe à Athènes ...
... language or customs . 23 26 Finally in this part , François Lissarrague ( Ch . 4 ) , like Suzanne Saïd , collapses ... languages in comedy , see below , introduction to Part II . 27 See also here Lissarrague's ' Être Scythe à Athènes ...
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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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