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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... whole range of different models for making sense of the many peoples he describes . Egyptian customs often present a mirror image of those of the Greeks : Egyptian women , for instance , urinate standing , men sitting ( 2.35 ) . At the ...
... whole range of different models for making sense of the many peoples he describes . Egyptian customs often present a mirror image of those of the Greeks : Egyptian women , for instance , urinate standing , men sitting ( 2.35 ) . At the ...
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... whole series of volumes . It might also provide a distraction : critics and historians have often confused the two objects of Greek representation and foreign reality , supposing that Athenian potters intended to distinguish accurately ...
... whole series of volumes . It might also provide a distraction : critics and historians have often confused the two objects of Greek representation and foreign reality , supposing that Athenian potters intended to distinguish accurately ...
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... whole range of different models ( relativism , polarity , diffusionism ) for the understanding of foreign peoples . Herodotus ' accounts of foreign peoples also cover a wide variety of topics Herodotus finds symmetries , for example ...
... whole range of different models ( relativism , polarity , diffusionism ) for the understanding of foreign peoples . Herodotus ' accounts of foreign peoples also cover a wide variety of topics Herodotus finds symmetries , for example ...
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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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