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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." ** Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 8 Maps 12 Chapter 1: Meeting the Barbarians 16 Chapter 2: How the Greeks Became Greek 38 Chapter 3: The Greeks Encounter the World 54 Chapter 4: The Greco-Persian Wars 76 Chapter 5: Greeks, Macedonians, and Persians 96 Chapter 6: The Hellenistic E

Author

Erik Jensen; Hackett Publishing Company

Publisher

Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781624667138

Subjects

History, Humanities