The Invention of Racism in Classical AntiquityPrinceton University Press, 5 mar 2006 - 563 pagine There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. |
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... CHAPTER 6 Phoenicians , Carthaginians , Syrians 324 CHAPTER 7 Egyptians CHAPTER 8 Parthia / Persia CHAPTER 9 352 371 Roman Views of Greeks 381 CHAPTER 10 Mountaineers and Plainsmen 406 CHAPTER 11 Gauls CHAPTER 12 411 Germans 427 CHAPTER 13.
... Egyptian Archaeology Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient HSCP HTR IEJ Ill . Class . Stud . ILS JEA JESHO JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JRS Journal of Roman ...
... Egyptians in Rome , has to leave out many of the positive aspects of Roman attitudes towards Egypt . Similarly , although Greek culture was admired , studied , and imitated in Rome , the present work will concentrate more on the ...
... Egyptians and others , always played a large role in the Roman perception of their empire because of their high cultural level and their ancient religious and political traditions . Chapter 5 is therefore devoted to Roman imperial ...
... Egyptians , and others in their empire in general , and in Rome in particular . It will be seen how there was a tendency to expel such peoples frequently from the city of Rome , even though they seemed to have made their way back fairly ...