Rethinking the other in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen.
Rethinking the other in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen.
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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N930.1/99
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English
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xiv, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Impressions of the "other". Persia in the Greek perception: Aeschylus and Herodotus -- Persia in the Greek perception: Xenophon and Alexander -- Egypt in the classical imagination -- Punica fides -- Caesar on the Gauls -- Tacitus on the Germans -- Tacitus and the defamation of the Jews -- People of...
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2011.
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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. Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found con...
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Rethinking the other in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen.
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Martin classical lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-384) and indexes.
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c2011.
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N930.1/99
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74VvX5B0Gj5O
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvX5B0Gj5O
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9780691148526 (hbk.)
9780691148526 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
069114852X (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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930.1
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991011181899702626
