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Greeks and Barbarians examines ancient Greek conceptions of the "other." The attitudes of Greeks to foreigners

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Greeks and Barbarians
 9780415939591

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note to the Reader
Abbreviations
Maps
General Introduction
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
THE ORGANISATION OF THIS VOLUME
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?
1 THE BARBARIAN: A REALITY ON STAGE?
2 THE BARBARIAN: A CHANT?
3 THE IMAGE OF THE BARBARIAN:REALITY OR FANTASY?
4 THE BARBARISM OF THE GREEKS
4 The Athenian Image of the Foreigner
1 THE DISTANT, THE PICTURESQUE, THE EXOTIC
2 EXPERIENCING THE OTHER
3 THE HOPLITE AND HIS DOUBLES
4 MYTHICAL USES OF THE 'OTHER'
PART II: THEMES
Introduction to Part II
5 When is a Myth Not a Myth? Bernal's 'Ancient Model
THE ANCIENT MODEL
SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE ETHNICITY
DANA US
COMPETITIVE GENEALOGIES
ATHENIAN SOURCES
FLUIDITY OF ETHNICITY IN MYTH
ETHNICITY AS AN ARTICULATOROF ABSTRACTIONS
CONCLUSION: MYTH AND HISTORY
REFERENCES
6 The Greek Notion of Dialect
7 The Greek Attitude to Foreign Religions
I
II
PART III: PEOPLES
Introduction to Part III
8 History and Ideology: The Greeks and 'Persian Decadence'
I
II
III
IV
V
9 The Greeks as Egyptologists
WHAT IS EGYPT?
WHAT IS TRUE CIVILISATION?WHERE IS THE REAL CITY?
THE LAND OF RELIGION
PART IV: OVERVIEWS
Introduction to Part IV
10 The Problem of Greek Nationality
I
II
III
IV
VI
VII
VIII
11 Greeks and Others: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
12 The Construction of the 'Other'
1 GREEKS AND BARBARIANS
1 Cultural contacts and the sense of a common Greek identity
2 Geography, ethnology and anthropology
3 The politicisation of the Greek/Barbarian contrast
4 New horizons and old topoi
II EUROPEANS, INDIANS AND ORIENTALS
1 Aristotle and the Indians
2 Savages, Greeks and the development of civilisation
3 Oriental despotism and the Eurocentric image of history
Intellectual Chronology
Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Index

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