Greeks and BarbariansThomas Harrison 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. |
Contents
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The Athenian Image of the Foreigner ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Introduction to Part II | 127 |
When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernals Ancient Model | 133 |
T | 147 |
The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions | 172 |
Introduction to Part III | 189 |
The Greeks as Egyptologists | 211 |
Introduction to Part IV | 231 |
From Antiquity to the Renaissance | 257 |
The Construction of the Other | 278 |
Intellectual Chronology | 311 |
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