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Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians'

Author : Kirill Postoutenko
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736800
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' written by Kirill Postoutenko and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago, German historian Reinhart Koselleck coined the notion of ‘asymmetrical concepts’, pointing at the asymmetry between standard self-ascriptions, such as ‘Hellenes’ or ‘Christians’, and pejorative other-references (‘Barbarians’ or ‘Pagans’) as a powerful weapon of cultural and political domination. Advancing and refining Koselleck’s approach, Beyond ‘Hellenes’ and ‘Barbarians’ explores the use of significant conceptual asymmetries such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity’, ‘liberalism’ vs. ‘servility’, ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ or even ‘masters’ vs. ‘slaves’ in political, scientific and fictional discourses of Europe from the Middle Ages to the present day. Using an interdisciplinary set of approaches, the scholars in political history, cultural sociology, intellectual history and literary criticism bolster and extend our understanding of this ever-growing area of conceptual history.

Greeks And Barbarians

Author : Harrison Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474468918
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Greeks And Barbarians written by Harrison Thomas Harrison and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Greeks view foreign peoples? This book considers what the Greeks thought of foreigners and their religions, cultures and politics, and what these beliefs and opinions reveal about the Greeks. The Greeks were occasionally intrigued by the customs and religions of the many different peoples with whom they came into contact; more often they were disdainful or dismissive, tending to regard non-Greeks as at best inferior, and at worst as candidates for conquest and enslavement. Facing up to this less attractive aspect of the classical tradition is vital, Thomas Harrison argues, to seeing both what the ancient world was really like and the full nature of its legacy in the modern. In this book he brings together outstanding European and American scholarship to show the difference and complexity of Greek representations of foreign peoples - or barbarians, as the Greeks called them - and how these representations changed over time.The book looks first at the main sources: the Histories of Herodotus, Greek tragedy, and Athenian art. Part II examines how the Greeks distinguished themselves from barbarians through myth, language and religion. Part III considers Greek representations of two different barbarian peoples - the allegedly decadent and effeminate Persians, and the Egyptians, proverbial for their religious wisdom. In part IV three chapters trace the development of the Greek-barbarian antithesis in later history: in nineteenth-century scholarship, in Byzantine and modern Greece, and in western intellectual history.Of the twelve chapters six are published in English for the first time. The editor has provided an extensive general introduction, as well as introductions to the parts. The book contains two maps, a guide to further reading and an intellectual chronology. All passages of ancient languages are translated, and difficult terms are explained.

Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece

Author : Lynette Mitchell
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589470
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece written by Lynette Mitchell and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism defined the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Panhellenism also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. One of the chief Panhellenic narratives, the war against the barbarian, provided the conceptual framework in which Alexander the Great could imagine his Asian campaign.

Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World

Author : Erik Jensen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624667147
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World written by Erik Jensen and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception—popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games—of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage?" Was the category fixed or fluid? How did it contrast with the Greeks and Romans' conception of their own cultural identity? Was it based on race? In accessible, jargon-free prose, Erik Jensen addresses these and other questions through a copiously illustrated introduction to the varied and evolving ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans engaged with, and thought about, foreign peoples—and to the recent historical and archaeological scholarship that has overturned received understandings of the relationship of Classical civilization to its "others."

Greeks & Barbarians

Author : James Alexander Kerr Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Greeks and Barbarians

Author : Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244269
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by Kostas Vlassopoulos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static distinctions between Greeks and Others, Professor Vlassopoulos explores the diversity of interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in four parallel but interconnected worlds: the world of networks, the world of apoikiai ('colonies'), the Panhellenic world and the world of empires. These diverse interactions set into motion processes of globalisation; but the emergence of a shared material and cultural koine across the Mediterranean was accompanied by the diverse ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures adopted and adapted elements of this global koine. The book explores the paradoxical role of Greek culture in the processes of ancient globalisation, as well as the peculiar way in which Greek culture was shaped by its interaction with non-Greek cultures.

Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond

Author : Joseph Sievers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047415523
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond by : Joseph Sievers

Download or read book Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond written by Joseph Sievers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the interplay between Josephus’ Judean identity and his Roman context. After treating historiographical and literary issues, it addresses Josephus’ presentation of Judaism and of historical “facts”. A final section deals with the transmission of his works.

Greeks and Barbarians (Classic Reprint)

Author : James Alexander Kerr Thomson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333466169
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians (Classic Reprint) written by James Alexander Kerr Thomson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greeks and Barbarians There have been many explanations of ancient Greece and its peculiar spirit. If I may say so, the only original thing about the explanation offered in this book is its want of originality; for it is the explanation of the Greeks themselves. They believed that Hellenism was born of the con ict between the Greeks and the Barbarians. As Thucydides puts it (i. Greek and Barbarian are correlative terms and Herodotus wrote his great book, seek ing, as he says, digressions of set purpose, to illustrate just that. About such an explanation there is obviously nothing startling at all. It is indeed (at first sight) so colourless and negative, that it must be dissatisfaction with it which has provoked all the other explanations. Scholars must have said to themselves, What is the use of repeat ing that Hellenism is the opposite of Barbarism? We know that already. But they knew it only in a formal or abstract way. It is but the other day that classical scholars have begun to study the Barbarian and to work out the contrast which alone can give us the material for a rich understanding of the Greek himself. Without this study one's ideas of the Greek could not fail to be somewhat empty and colourless. But any one who cares to read even the meagre outline which these essays supply will hardly complain that there is a lack of colour. The subject indeed is so vast that one is compelled to be selective and illustrative. Even to be this is far from easy. For instance, it seems extraordinary to write upon the meaning of Hellenism without a chapter on Greek art. Such a chapter, however, is excluded by the design of this book, which must dispense with illustrations whereas in dealing with literature I could always drive home my point by simple quotation. Then again it may appear a little old-fashioned and arbitrary that I confine myself to the centuries before Alexander. But after all it was, in these centuries that Hellenism rose into its most characteristic form - and in any case a man must stop somewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides

Author : Ryan Krieger Balot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199340382
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides written by Ryan Krieger Balot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into four sections-History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception-The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides provides a comprehensive introduction to Thucydides' ideas and their ancient influence. It bridges traditionally divided disciplines, and offers both solid explanation and innovative approaches.

Greeks and Barbarians

Author : James Alexander James Alexander Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781979083775
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by James Alexander James Alexander Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many explanations of ancient Greece and its peculiar spirit. If I may say so, the only original thing about the explanation offered in this book is its want of originality; for it is the explanation of the Greeks themselves. They believed that Hellenism was born of the conflict between the Greeks and the Barbarians. As Thucydides puts it (I. 3), "Greek" and "Barbarian" are correlative terms; and Herodotus wrote his great book, "seeking," as he says, "digressions of set purpose," to illustrate just that. About such an explanation there is obviously nothing startling at all. It is indeed (at first sight) so colourless and negative, that it must be dissatisfaction with it which has provoked all the other explanations. Scholars must have said to themselves, "What is the use of repeating that Hellenism is the opposite of Barbarism? We know that already." But they knew it only in a formal or abstract way. It is but the other day that classical scholars have begun to study the Barbarian and to work out the contrast which alone can give us the material for a rich understanding of the Greek himself. Without this study one's ideas of the Greek could not fail to be somewhat empty and colourless. But any one who cares to read even the meagre outline which these essays supply will hardly complain that there is a lack of colour.

Plato's Philosophy Reaching Beyond the Limits of Reason

Author : Harald Haarmann
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3487155427
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Philosophy Reaching Beyond the Limits of Reason written by Harald Haarmann and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platon zählt zu den einflussreichsten Philosophen aller Zeiten. Er beeinflusste maßgeblich Profil und Kanon der westlichen Philosophie. Die Kritik am sogenannten Platonismus wurde kontinuierlich von den Schwierigkeiten gespeist, die die Interpretation der philosophischen Schriften Platons bereitet. Gemeinhin wird er als rein rationaler Philosoph gesehen. Ein Philosoph war er in der Tat, ebenso jedoch ein Experte in der Annäherung an das Nicht-Rationale, unter anderem in Form von Mythen. So wurde er auch als "Mythenerfinder" und "Mythologe" bezeichnet. Platon war ein Visionär, der es wagte, das Reich des Nicht-Rationalen auf systematische und disziplinierte Art zu erforschen. Insgesamt lässt sich Platons philosophisches Vorhaben als Streben nach einer umfassenden Sicht des organischen Ganzen klassifizieren. Der Ausdruck „Gestalt“ scheint die Ganzheit am ehesten zu beschreiben. Platon kann als prominentester und auch als letzter Repräsentant der antiken Philosophie angesehen werden, der die Entwicklung einer Gestalt-Philosophie anstrebte. Plato is one of the most influential philosophers of all time. He decisively shaped the profile and canon of western philosophy. Criticism of what has become known as Platonism has been continuously nourished by the difficulties of interpreting this philosopher's writings. Plato is commonly viewed as a purely rational philosopher. A philosopher he was indeed, but Plato was also an expert in approaching the non-rational, in the form of mythology among others. Plato has been called a "mythmaker" and a "mythologist". Plato was a visionary who dared to explore the realm of the non-rational in a systematic and disciplined way. In an overall comparison, Plato's philosophical enterprise strives for a comprehensive perspective on the organic whole. The expression "Gestalt" seems to come closest to describing the wholeness. Plato may be considered to be the most prominent representative of classical philosophy to develop a Gestalt philosophy and also the last to do so in antiquity.

Greeks & Barbarians

Author : J A K (James Alexander Ke Thomson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022438880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Greeks & Barbarians written by J A K (James Alexander Ke Thomson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical analysis of the relationship between the ancient Greeks and the 'barbarians' who were considered their 'others'. The author explores the historical, cultural, and political factors that contributed to the Greek perception of barbarians, and traces the evolution of this concept from its roots in ancient Greece to its influence on modern Western societies. This is an important resource for scholars studying classics, history, and anthropology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society

Author : Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135211280
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society written by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society presents the work of sociologist Niklas Luhmann in a radical new light. Luhmann’s theory is here introduced both in terms of society at large and the legal system specifically, and for the first time, Luhmann’s texts are systematically read together with theoretical insights from post-structuralism, deconstruction, phenomenology, radical ethics, feminism and post-ecologism. In his far-reaching book, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos distances Luhmann’s theory from its misrepresentations as conservative, rigorously positivist and disconnected from empirical reality, and firmly locates it in a sphere of post-ideological jurisprudence. The book operates both as a detailed explanation of the theory’s concepts and as the locus of a critique which brings forth Luhmann’s radical credentials. The focal points are Luhmann’s concept of society and the law’s paradoxical connection to justice. However, these concepts are also transgressed in order to show how the law deals with the illusion of its identity, and more broadly how the theory itself deals with its limitations. This is illustrated by examples drawn from human rights, constitutional theory and ecological thinking. On the whole, Niklas Luhmann: Law, Justice, Society serves both as an introductory text and as a critical response to Luhmann’s theory, and is recommended reading for students and researchers in sociology, law, social sciences, politics and whoever is interested in seeing the influential work of Niklas Luhmann from a critical new perspective.

Greeks and Barbarians

Author : John E. Coleman
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by John E. Coleman and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen papers from the April 1993 conference held at Cornell U. interpret relationships between the ancient Greeks and other cultures from the viewpoints of archaeology, history, linguistics, philosophy, and literature. Topics include linguistic contacts, relations with Phoenicians and Ethiopians, Greek philosophy in Egypt, ancient notions of nationalism and ethnocentrism, and the use of Greek antiquity for the development of Eurocentrism. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Greeks & Barbarians

Author : James Alexander Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337463861
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Greeks & Barbarians written by James Alexander Kerr and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A General History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Death of Alexander the Great

Author : George William Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Greeks and Barbarians

Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748679317
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Greeks and Barbarians written by Thomas Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Greeks view foreign peoples? This book considers what the Greeks thought of foreigners and their religions, cultures and politics, and what these beliefs and opinions reveal about the Greeks. The Greeks were occasionally intrigued by the customs and religions of the many different peoples with whom they came into contact; more often they were disdainful or dismissive, tending to regard non-Greeks as at best inferior, and at worst as candidates for conquest and enslavement. Facing up to this less attractive aspect of the classical tradition is vital, Thomas Harrison argues, to seeing both what the ancient world was really like and the full nature of its legacy in the modern. In this book he brings together outstanding European and American scholarship to show the difference and complexity of Greek representations of foreign peoples - or barbarians, as the Greeks called them - and how these representations changed over time. The book looks first at the main sources: the Histories of Herodotus, Greek tragedy, and Athenian art. Part II examines how the Greeks distinguished themselves from barbarians through myth, language and religion. Part III considers Greek representations of two different barbarian peoples - the allegedly decadent and effeminate Persians, and the Egyptians, proverbial for their religious wisdom. In part IV three chapters trace the development of the Greek-barbarian antithesis in later history: in nineteenth-century scholarship, in Byzantine and modern Greece, and in western intellectual history. Of the twelve chapters six are published in English for the first time. The editor has provided an extensive general introduction, as well as introductions to the parts. The book contains two maps, a guide to further reading and an intellectual chronology. All passages of ancient languages are translated, and difficult terms are explained.