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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... imperial reliefs found in the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias by courtesy of the New York University Excava- tions at Aphrodisias . Photo courtesy of the New York Excavations . 8a - b and 8c - d . Judaea Capta Coins . Silver denarii , Israel ...
... imperial expansion . I do not discuss the mechanisms of ancient imperialism , but , again , the attitudes of mind that created an atmo- sphere in which wars of expansion were undertaken — or not undertaken . This will lead to the ...
... Imperial Rome ( Cambridge , 1967 ) and J.P.V.D. Balsdon , Romans & Aliens ( London , 1979 ) ; Yves Albert Dauge . Le Barbare : Recherches sur la conception romaine de la barbarie et de la civilisation ( Brussels , 1981 ) . These three ...
... imperial attitudes towards the various peoples who inhabit an Empire will help in clarifying the underlying feelings , ambitions , and fears of those who main- tain , expand , or lose an empire . It is therefore not the intention of ...
... imperial integration ? What kind of tensions did this process engender over time ? Ancient Influence on Early Modern Authors Because it is one of the aims of this work to trace the ancient roots of early modern racism , it will be ...