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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... East 257 CHAPTER 5 Roman Imperialism and the Conquest of the East 304 CHAPTER 6 Phoenicians , Carthaginians , Syrians 324 CHAPTER 7 Egyptians CHAPTER 8 Parthia / Persia CHAPTER 9 352 371 Roman Views of Greeks 381 CHAPTER 10 Mountaineers ...
... East- ern Antiquities , National Museum of Denmark . 7. Claudius and Britannia . From a series of Roman imperial reliefs found in the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias by courtesy of the New York University Excava- tions at Aphrodisias . Photo ...
... East ( Leiden , 1999 ) , 47-75 ; for Rome see the survey article by Karl Christ , " Römer und Barbaren in der hohen Kaiserzeit , " Saeculum 10 ( 1959 ) , 273-288 and the already observed . It is also an extremely delicate topic ...
... East : An Historical Enquiry ( New York and Oxford , 1990 ) , chapter 2 , at p . 17 , accepts for " race " what he describes as " current American usage . " This , he says , exclusively denotes " such major divisions as white , black ...
... East , note 1 on p . 109f . relates that in 1940 the British Army recognized the relevance for its recruits of " four and only four races — English , Scottish Welsh , and Irish . " Race Relations Act 1976 , ss 1 ( 1 ) ( b ) , 3 ( 1 ) ...