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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... clearly set forth in a forthcoming article : Gideon Bohak . " The Ibis and the Jewish Question : Ancient ' Anti - Semitism ' in Historical Perspective . " in M. Mor and A. Oppenheimer ( eds . ) , Jewish - Gentile Relations in the Second ...
... clearly there is a connection between the two . If we interpret them properly , we can understand what ancient authors meant to convey or conveyed , sometimes without meaning to do so , about other peoples and about foreigners living in ...
... Clearly the Roman imperial period should be covered systematically . Fourth - century pagan litera- ture will be included , although in a less systematic manner.34 It was my impres- sion that it would not be profitable to do more than ...
... clearly defined terminology to apply to ancient phenomena and , second , we need to clarify our own approach . If we want to determine whether there were indeed early forms of racial prejudice and racism in Greece or Rome , it must be ...
... clearly suggests the biological determinism which characterizes modern racism . A topic which it will not be possible to treat here is the work of fascist and national - socialist ancient historians from the 1920s till the end of World ...