Rethinking the Other in Antiquity / / Erich S. Gruen.
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. I...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Martin Classical Lectures ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. IMPRESSIONS OF THE "OTHER"
- CHAPTER ONE. Persia in the Greek Perception: Aeschylus and Herodotus
- CHAPTER TWO. Persia in the Greek Perception: Xenophon and Alexander
- CHAPTER THREE. Egypt in the Classical Imagination
- CHAPTER FOUR. Punica Fides
- CHAPTER FIVE. Caesar on the Gauls
- CHAPTER SIX. Tacitus on the Germans
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews
- CHAPTER EIGHT. People of Color
- PART II. CONNECTIONS WITH THE "OTHER"
- CHAPTER NINE. Foundation Legends
- CHAPTER TEN. Fictitious Kinships: Greeks and Others
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fictitious Kinships: Jews and Others
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Cultural Interlockings and Overlappings
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Citations
- Subject Index