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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... seen in the context of other fifthcentury writers on barbarian peoples , such as Hecataeus of Miletus , Xanthus of Lydia , or Hellanicus of Lesbos , ' of Hippocratic medical texts such as Airs , Waters , Places , and of the fourth ...
... seen in the context of other fifthcentury writers on barbarian peoples , such as Hecataeus of Miletus , Xanthus of Lydia , or Hellanicus of Lesbos , ' of Hippocratic medical texts such as Airs , Waters , Places , and of the fourth ...
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... seen alongside that of Edith Hall , who emphasises again Euripides ' refraction of a simple barbarian antithesis ( “ the polarity deconstructed ' ) and the emergence of the types of the ' barbaric Greek and the ' noble barbarian'.21 We ...
... seen alongside that of Edith Hall , who emphasises again Euripides ' refraction of a simple barbarian antithesis ( “ the polarity deconstructed ' ) and the emergence of the types of the ' barbaric Greek and the ' noble barbarian'.21 We ...
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... seen in late fifth - 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 ...
... seen in late fifth - 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 ...
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... seen first against the backdrop of recent work that examines the use of the Amazons as an analogue for the Persians , 29 and secondly alongside Ann Bovon's discussion of the representation of Persian warriors : Attic images of the ...
... seen first against the backdrop of recent work that examines the use of the Amazons as an analogue for the Persians , 29 and secondly alongside Ann Bovon's discussion of the representation of Persian warriors : Attic images of the ...
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... seen as suggestive of significant cultural interplay.35 This line of work has been continued in the recent study of Margaret C. Miller , which catalogues in intricate detail the cultural borrowings – both those which are incontestable ...
... seen as suggestive of significant cultural interplay.35 This line of work has been continued in the recent study of Margaret C. Miller , which catalogues in intricate detail the cultural borrowings – both those which are incontestable ...
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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