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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... Jewish Studies JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JRS Journal of Roman Studies JTS OED PCPS PG PL RA RE Journal of Theological Studies Oxford English Dictionary Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society J.-P. Migne , Patrum Graecorum ...
... Jewish Question : Ancient ' Anti - Semitism ' in Historical Perspective . " in M. Mor and A. Oppenheimer ( eds . ) , Jewish - Gentile Relations in the Second Temple , Mishnaic and Talmudic Pe- riods ( Jerusalem ) . Special mention may ...
... Jewish sources whatever the language because the Jews never became part of mainstream Greek and Roman society . It is not my aim to compare the Graeco - Roman world with contemporary and non - Western societies . The literature on these ...
... Jews and for other minorities . Although much was made of presumed physical differences , it remained a fact that many or most Jews looked like their non - Jewish neighbors . Nobody would deny that the prejudices against Jews , Gypsies ...
... Jewish Question ' in German Literature 1749-1939 : Emancipation and its Discontents ( Oxford , 1999 ) , 198f . . 26If . Jacques Barzun , Race : A Study in Superstition ( first published in 1937 ; revised edition New York , 1965 ) , ix ...