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Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China
Author | : Hyunjin Kim |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Argues that Greece was an integral part of the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilization and that this had a major impact on the ways in which the Greeks chose to represent foreigners in their literature.
Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World
Author | : |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1624660894 |
By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included.
Rome, China, and the Barbarians
Author | : Randolph B. Ford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108473954 |
An exploration of ethnological thought in Greece, Rome, and China and its articulation during 'barbarian' invasion and conquest.
Ancient Greece and China Compared
Author | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108340660 |
Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
Author | : Hans Beck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108485774 |
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Rome, China, and the Barbarians
Author | : Randolph B. Ford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108596606 |
This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and political fragmentation in Rome and China. Yet while the Western Roman Empire was never reestablished, China was reunified at the end of the sixth century. Following a comparative discussion of earlier historiographical and ethnographic traditions in the classical Greco-Roman and Chinese worlds, the book turns to the late antique/early medieval period, when the Western Roman Empire 'fell' and China was reconstituted as a united empire after centuries of foreign conquest and political division. Analyzing the discourse of ethnic identity in the historical texts of this later period, with original translations by the author, the book explores the extent to which notions of Self and Other, of 'barbarian' and 'civilized', help us understand both the transformation of the Roman world as well as the restoration of a unified imperial China.
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece
Author | : Sara Forsdyke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107032342 |
Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.
The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity
Author | : Benjamin Isaac |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 140084956X |
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. Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.
What is a Slave Society?
Author | : Noel Emmanuel Lenski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2018-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107144892 |
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.