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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... Greek representations of foreign peoples . To begin with , it gives a disproportionate weight to the Persians , obscuring the diversity of different barbarian peoples in Greek thought . Though the Greeks on occasion spoke as if ...
... Greek representations of foreign peoples . To begin with , it gives a disproportionate weight to the Persians , obscuring the diversity of different barbarian peoples in Greek thought . Though the Greeks on occasion spoke as if ...
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... Greek - style ethnocentrism to both Persians and Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ; cf. 1.134 ) .46 Other authors similarly confound any simple Greek ...
... Greek - style ethnocentrism to both Persians and Egyptians : the Egyptians , he claims , call all those who do not speak their language ' barbarians ' ( 2.158 ; cf. 1.134 ) .46 Other authors similarly confound any simple Greek ...
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... Greek states to unify into a single ' nation - state ' . The Byzantinist Robert Browning ( Ch . 11 ) surveys the continuing potency of the Greek - barbarian antithesis in later Greek history . Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The ...
... Greek states to unify into a single ' nation - state ' . The Byzantinist Robert Browning ( Ch . 11 ) surveys the continuing potency of the Greek - barbarian antithesis in later Greek history . Finally , with Wilfried Nippel's ' The ...
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... Greeks in the Persian court of Persepolis ; 49 through the settlement of non - Greeks in Greek communities , or the interaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with their neighbours ; so through warfare , trade or embassies ; s ' or ...
... Greeks in the Persian court of Persepolis ; 49 through the settlement of non - Greeks in Greek communities , or the interaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with their neighbours ; so through warfare , trade or embassies ; s ' or ...
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... Greek ideological ends : all these may be taken to suggest a relative ignorance of , and indifference towards , the people in question . In another sense , however , contact and representations can be distinguished . In compiling her ...
... Greek ideological ends : all these may be taken to suggest a relative ignorance of , and indifference towards , the people in question . In another sense , however , contact and representations can be distinguished . In compiling her ...
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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