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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... Early Classical Greek , c . 465 B.C. Inv . No. 1981.173 . Hamburg , Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe . 3. Persian Soldiers . Attic red - figure lekythos , c . 400 B.C. , # 695 . © Copyright The British Museum 4a and 4b . Oriental ruler ...
... early forms of racism , to be called proto - racism , were common in the Graeco - Roman world . My second point in this connection is that those early forms served as prototype for modern racism which developed in the eighteenth century ...
... early Greece : W. Raeck , Zum Barbarenbild in der Kunst Athens im 6. und 5. Jahrhundert v . Chr . ( Bonn , 1981 ) ; Beth Cohen ( ed . ) , Not the Classical Ideal ( Leiden , 2000 ) , a volume of articles which interprets " the Other " in ...
... early modern historians . It is my ambition to advance our understanding of the es- sence of racism and ethnic prejudice in all periods and societies in some re- spects . Consequently , I hope the book will also be of use to those ...
... early stages in the eighteenth century , there was nothing like the state - imposed set of theories and applica- tions developed later in Nazi Germany . There were various authors in search of concepts who did not necessarily agree with ...