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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... later sixth and fifth centuries a comparatively large proportion of 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 ...
... later sixth and fifth centuries a comparatively large proportion of 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 ...
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... later in discussing Persian women , there is a danger that this alchemy – the reuse of Greek texts for Persian history – is performed in too simplistic and convenient a fashion : facts that reflect well on Persia are believed , those ...
... later in discussing Persian women , there is a danger that this alchemy – the reuse of Greek texts for Persian history – is performed in too simplistic and convenient a fashion : facts that reflect well on Persia are believed , those ...
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... later ' reception ' of classical culture ; 74 and an increasing self - consciousness within the discipline of classics ; the revolutionary rewriting of Persian history since the early 1980s , " and an increasing concentration on ...
... later ' reception ' of classical culture ; 74 and an increasing self - consciousness within the discipline of classics ; the revolutionary rewriting of Persian history since the early 1980s , " and an increasing concentration on ...
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... later playwrights ) evokes the exotic barbarism of the Persians - the technique , for example , by which he suggests foreign speech by a spattering of foreign words . This concentration on the play's visual and aural dimensions ...
... later playwrights ) evokes the exotic barbarism of the Persians - the technique , for example , by which he suggests foreign speech by a spattering of foreign words . This concentration on the play's visual and aural dimensions ...
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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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