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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Rethinking the other in antiquity. |
Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. IMPRESSIONS OF THE "OTHER"
- CHAPTER ONE: Persia in the Greek Perception
- Aeschylus' Persae
- Herodotus
- Some Visual Representations
- CHAPTER TWO: Persia in the Greek Perception
- Xenophon's Cyropaedia
- Alexander and the Persians
- CHAPTER THREE: Egypt in the Classical Imagination
- Herodotus
- Diodorus
- Assorted Assessments
- Plutarch
- CHAPTER FOUR: Punica Fides
- The Hellenic Backdrop
- In the Shadow of the Punic Wars
- The Manipulation of the Image
- The Enhancement of the Image
- CHAPTER FIVE: Caesar on the Gauls
- Prior Portraits
- The Caesarian Rendering
- CHAPTER SIX: Tacitus on the Germans
- Germans and Romans
- Interpretatio Romana?
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews
- The Question
- Tacitean Irony
- CHAPTER EIGHT: People of Color
- Textual Images
- Visual Images
- PART II. CONNECTIONS WITH THE "OTHER"
- CHAPTER NINE: Foundation Legends
- Foundation Tales as Cultural Thievery
- Pelops
- Danaus
- Cadmus
- Athenians and Pelasgians
- Rome, Troy, and Arcadia
- Israel's Fictive Founders
- CHAPTER TEN: Fictitious Kinships
- Perseus as Multiculturalist
- Athens and Egypt
- The Legend of Nectanebos
- Numidians and the Near East
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Fictitious Kinships
- The Separatist Impression
- The Bible's Other Side
- Ishmaelites and Arabs
- Jews and Greeks as Kinsmen
- CHAPTER TWELVE: Cultural Interlockings and Overlappings
- Jews and Greeks as Philosophers
- Jewish Presentations of Gentiles
- Phoenicians and Greeks
- Roman Adaptation and Appropriation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Citations
- Subject Index
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