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Rethinking the other in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruen, Erich S.
- Series:
- Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered). New series
- Martin classical lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greeks--Attitudes--History--To 1500.
- Greeks.
- Romans--Attitudes--History--To 1500.
- Romans.
- Noncitizens--Greece--Public opinion--History--To 1500.
- Noncitizens.
- Noncitizens--Rome--Public opinion--History.
- Culture conflict.
- History.
- Civilization.
- Public opinion.
- Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Foreign influences.
- Greece.
- Rome--Civilization--Foreign influences.
- Rome.
- Culture conflict--History.
- Civilization, Classical.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Impressions Of The "Other"
- Chapter 1 Persia in the Greek Perception: Aeschylus and Herodotus 09
- Aeschylus' Peizae 09
- Herodotus 21
- Some Visual Representations 40
- Chapter 2 Persia in the Greek Perception: Xenophon and Alexander 53
- Xenophon's Cyropaedia 53
- Alexander and the Persians 65
- Chapter 3 Egypt in the Classical Imagination 76
- Herodotus 76
- Diodorus 90
- Assorted Assessments 99
- Plutarch 111
- Chapter Four Punica Fides 115
- The Hellenic Backdrop 116
- In the Shadow of the Punic Wars 122
- The Manipulation of the Image 132
- The Enhancement of the Image 137
- Chapter 5 Caesar on the Gauls 141
- Prior Portraits 141
- The Caesarian Rendering 147
- Chapter 6 Tacitus on the Germans 159
- Germans and Romans 159
- Interpretatio Romana? 169
- Chapter 7 Tacitus and the Defamation of the Jews 179
- The Question 180
- Tacitean Irony 187
- Chapter 8 People of Color 197
- Textual Images 197
- Visual Images 211
- Part II Connections With The "Other"
- Chapter 9 Foundation Legends 223
- Foundation Tales as Cultural Thievery 224
- Pelops 227
- Danaus 229
- Cadmus 233
- Athenians and Pelasgians 236
- Rome, Troy, and Arcadia 243
- Israel's Fictive Founders 250
- Chapter 10 Fictitious Kinships: Greeks and Others 253
- Perseus as Multiculturalist 253
- Athens and Egypt 265
- The Legend of Nectanebos 267
- Numidians and the Near East 272
- Chapter 11 Fictitious Kinships: Jews and Others 277
- The Separatist Impression 277
- The Bible's Other Side 287
- Ishmaelites and Arabs 299
- Jews and Greeks as Kinsmen 302
- Chapter 12 Cultural Interlockings and Overlappings 308
- Jews and Greeks as Philosophers 308
- Jewish Presentations of Gentiles 325
- Phoenicians and Greeks 341
- Roman Adaptation and Appropriation 343.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780691148526
- 069114852X
- OCLC:
- 587249146
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