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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... Athenian mistress and black slave girl in cemetery . Attic white- ground lekythos , Bosanquet painter , 450-440 B.C. , v.i. 3291. Antikensam- mlung , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz- . 6. Nude black boy attending ...
... Athenians was strictly limited . I have therefore excluded Ethiopians from sys- tematic treatment because for some authors they are clearly mythical and this study deals only with people whom the Greeks and Romans actually experi- enced ...
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