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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... slaves and free men in Rome , but it definitely expresses a feeling , held by many Romans — but not necessarily a feeling held in that form by the poet himself — that the slaves of the rich humiliate free - born Romans . Again , as ...
... slaves could be described as the ultimate form of proto - racism . Aristotle's natural slaves correspond with all the features listed as characteristic of what is be- lieved to be a race . He writes that slaves — and indeed all non ...
... slave which enhanced the status of the owner . 123 This only confirms the impression that their impact on the social ... slave - owning societies to have a rare type of slave conferred the same sort of status that ownership of a rare ...