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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... , Carthaginians , Syrians 324 CHAPTER 7 Egyptians CHAPTER 8 Parthia / Persia CHAPTER 9 352 371 Roman Views of Greeks 381 CHAPTER 10 Mountaineers and Plainsmen 406 CHAPTER 11 Gauls CHAPTER 12 411 Germans 427 CHAPTER 13.
Benjamin Isaac. CHAPTER 11 Gauls CHAPTER 12 411 Germans 427 CHAPTER 13 Jews 440 Conclusions to Part 2 492 END CONCLUSIONS 501 Ethnic Prejudice , Proto - Racism , and Imperialism in Antiquity 503 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 517 INDEX OF SOURCES ...
... German prisoners . Column of Marcus Aurelius , Rome , scene 61. Photo : Eugen Petersen , Die Marcus - Säule auf Piazza ... Germans surrender to the Emperor . Panel relief of Marcus Au- relius , Roma , Musei Capitolini , Inv . 809 / S ...
... Germans were regarded as fierce fighters , there was no expectation of considerable profit if they were subjugated , so the conquest of Germany never became a first priority after the reign of Augustus . Even though this is obvious in ...
... German translation of Boas ' work , Kultur und Rasse ( Leipzig , 1914 ) , 236f . ends with a call for racial hygiene . For a collection of his work : George W. Stocking ( ed . ) , The Shaping of American group prejudice , and xenophobia ...