Rethinking the other in antiquity /
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. I...
| Основен автор: | Gruen, Erich S., (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2011]
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| Серия: |
Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered).
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=350107 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Rethinking the other in antiquity. |
| Резюме: |
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for the achievements and principles of other societies, and how they discerned--and even invented--kinship relations and shared roots with diverse peoples. Gruen shows how the ancients incorporated the traditions of foreign nations, and imagined blood ties and associations with distant cultures through myth, legend, and fictive histories. He looks at a host of creative tales, including those describing the founding of Thebes by the Phoenician Cadmus, Rom's embrace of Trjoan and Arcadian origins, and Abraham as ancestor to the Spartans. Gruen gives in-depth readings of major texts by Aeschylus, Herodotus, Xenophon, Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, and others, in addition to portions of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how they offer richly nuanced portraits of the alien that go well beyond stereotypes and caricature. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiv, 415 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-384) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781400836550 1400836557 1282936492 9781282936492 |