Rethinking the other in antiquity /
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 caricatu...
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Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered). New Series
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Call Number: CB251 .G78
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- Part I. Impressions of the "other". Persia in the Greek perception : Aeschylus and Herodotus ; Persia in the Greek perception : Xenophon and Alexander ; Egypt in the classical imagination ; Punica fides ; Caesar on the Gauls ; Tacitus on the Germans ; Tacitus and the defamation of the Jews ; People of color
- Part II. Connections with the "other". Foundation legends ; Fictitious kinships : Greeks and others ; Fictitious kinships : Jews and others ; Cultural interlockings and overlappings.