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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... Greece and Rome from the fifth century B.C. till late antiquity . The book analyzes patterns of thinking , intellectual and emotional concepts as well as attitudes towards select specific peoples as encountered in Greek and Latin ...
... Greece see Edith Hall , Inventing the Barbarian : Greek Self - Definition through Tragedy ( Oxford , 1989 ) ; Jonathan M. Hall , Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity ( Cambridge , 1997 ) ; T. Long , Barbarians in Greek Comedy ( Carbondale ...
... Greece and Rome , especially Greece , as the origin of liberty , spiritual and otherwise , and of constitutionalism . A systematic consideration of what we would regard as ancient forms of bigotry may not appeal to some scholars . The ...
... . Frederickson , Racism , applies it to the later Middle Ages . " A seminal study of identity was Erik H. Erikson's Childhood and Society ( New York , 1950 ) . Greece , although the former will certainly not be ignored INTRODUCTION . 5.
Benjamin Isaac. Greece , although the former will certainly not be ignored . " This will inevitably result in ... Greece , see now I. Malkin ( ed . ) , An- cient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity ( Washington , DC and Cambridge , MA ...