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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... ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPECIFIC GROUPS : GREEK AND ROMAN IMPERIALISM 253 INTRODUCTION TO PART 2 255 CHAPTER 4 Greeks and the East 257 CHAPTER 5 Roman Imperialism and the Conquest of the East 304 CHAPTER 6 Phoenicians , Carthaginians ...
... attitudes towards select specific peoples as encountered in Greek and Latin literature of the period concerned . It focuses on bigotry and social hatred in antiquity . This may not be an appealing subject , but its impor- tance cannot ...
... attitudes , although , at the same time , the symptoms are widespread , even where there is no public or official approval . One of the peculiar legacies of the Greek lan- guage and Greek society is the word " barbarian , " still used ...
... attitudes towards others in the literature of the past five centuries , with special emphasis on Montaigne and Swift . " More broadly , this book is about how the European imagination has dealt with the groups which it habitually talks ...
... attitudes towards Egypt . Similarly , although Greek culture was admired , studied , and imitated in Rome , the present work will concentrate more on the negative or ambivalent attitudes Rome showed towards Greeks and F. I. Zeitlin ...