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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... 6 Phoenicians , Carthaginians , Syrians 324 CHAPTER 7 Egyptians CHAPTER 8 Parthia / Persia CHAPTER 9 352 371 Roman Views of Greeks 381 CHAPTER 10 Mountaineers and Plainsmen 406 CHAPTER 11 Gauls CHAPTER 12 411 Germans 427 CHAPTER 13.
... views Greeks and Romans held of foreign peo- ples and their ideology of 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 ...
... views of others , primar- ily negative views held by Greek and Roman authors . In this work I shall not use the term " Others " frequently , because " the Other " has in recent decades acquired quite a broad meaning : " Others " include ...
... views of others of oneself , and the percep- tion of others ' views of oneself . " It will be understood that a consideration of hostility towards , say , Egyptians in Rome , has to leave out many of the positive aspects of Roman ...
... views encountered in Greek and Roman literature . These views pertain to various dimensions and features of social life and culture : religion , occupa- tion , modes of life and conflict , and language . Emphasis and values may change ...