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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... Romans . 1 3 This book , therefore , aims in particular to eluci- date the views encountered in Greek and Roman literature . These views pertain to various dimensions and features of social life and culture : religion , occupa- tion ...
... Roman Empire managed to become an integrated whole , in spite of Roman ambivalence towards the Greeks , and it is at least as interesting to see how it then split into two parts , a Latin- and a Greek - speaking empire , where ...
... Roman world . It seems clear , however , that eighteenth- and nine- teenth - century western thought has many concepts in common with Greek and Roman group prejudices . CHRONOLOGY AND SUBJECT MATTER At this point we need to clarify the ...
... Roman Empire , " ANRW 2.3 ( 1975 ) , 112-137 and his earlier paper : " Roman Attitudes to the External Gentes of the North , " Acta Classica 4 ( 1961 ) , 90-102 . 102 Unlike Balsdon's book , which was widely criticized , Sherwin - White ...
... Roman who is ' free ' to voice aggressive masculinity in the public eye . " " We know that , whatever else , Satire satirizes the satirist and satirizes the genre of Satire , turns on itself and on the consciousness of its voice and its ...