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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... Herodotus 8.55 : Erechtheus is said to have been γηγενής . 31 Lewis Hanke , Aristotle and the American Indians : a study in race prejudice in the modern world ( Bloomington , IN , 1959 ) ; Anthony Pagden , The Fall of Natural Man : The ...
... Herodotus , although we may have recourse to earlier sources as needed . Herodotus is the first author to devote extensive discussion to the relationship between Greeks and non - Greeks and this must therefore be our first major point ...
... difficulties in understanding the Greek terms ovog and yέvog ; cf. C. P. Jones , " Ovos and yέvos in Herodotus , " Classial Quarterly 46 ( 1996 ) , 315-320 . to have a common ancestor.63 The same goes for the INTRODUCTION 25.
... was Solon xaτà 0ɛwρíŋν лρó¶¤σiν έxлλwσag at Herodotus 1.29.1 . Even if this was a pretext , it still suggests that it was a credible pretext at the time . of this study is devoted to a survey of Greek INTRODUCTION . 47.
... Herodotus , of course , but not exclusively . Next come the views of Persia and other eastern nations held by fourth - century authors , in particular Plato , Isocrates , and Xenophon . An important theme is the rise of the belief in ...