1st Edition

Greeks and Barbarians

Edited By Thomas Harrison Copyright 2002
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Acknowledgements, Note to the Reader, Abbreviations, Maps, General Introduction, PART I. SOURCES, Introduction to Part I, 1. Herodotus the Tourist, 2. Battle Narrative and Politics in Aeschylus' Persae, 3 Greeks and Barbarians in Euripides' Tragedies: The End of Differences?, 4. The Athenian Image of the Foreigner, PART II. THEMES, Introduction to Part II, 5. When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernal's 'Ancient Model', 6. The Greek Notion of Dialect, 7. The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions, PART III. PEOPLES, Introduction to Part III, 8. History and Ideology: The Greeks and 'Persian Decadence', 9. The Greeks as Egyptologists, PART IV. OVERVIEWS, Introduction to Part IV, 10. The Problem of Greek Nationality, 11. Greeks and Others: From Antiquity to the Renaissance, 12. The Construction of the 'Other', Intellectual Chronology, Guide to Further Reading, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Thomas Harrison

    "Altogether these 12 papers give a coherent view on a number of aspects of the relations between Greeks and barbarians. The purposes outlined in the Introduction are fully met. Moreover, the book is well-edited, both textually and in appearance.

    ...I think that for both [classicists or ancient-historians] this book should be obligatory reading..." -- Jan P. Stronk, University of Amsterdam