The Invention of Racism in Classical AntiquityThere 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. |
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... Aristotle's original ideas , for although Aristotle may consider some foreigners bestial or brutish , and approximate 30 Aristotle , De generatione animalium 162a 10ff .; Meteorologica , 381b 10. Note , however , that there was an old ...
... Aristotle and widely accepted afterwards . 120 It is relevant to the discussion of ancient stereo- typical thinking ... Aristotle's natural slaves correspond with all the features listed as characteristic of what is be- lieved to be a ...
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