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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Benjamin Isaac. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity • BENJAMIN ISAAC PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 2004 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
... Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) of 1910. 1 The term racial- ism has been around a little longer : It first appeared in print in 1907.2 Does this mean that racism did not exist before the twentieth century ? In fact there is a ...
... ( Oxford , 1989 ) ; Jonathan M. Hall , Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity ( Cambridge , 1997 ) ; T. Long , Barbarians in Greek Comedy ( Carbondale , 1986 ) , esp . chapter 6 : " The Barbarian - Hellene Antith- esis " ; Steven W. Hirsch ...
... ( Oxford , 2001 ) , which studies hostility and ambivalence in the attitudes towards others in the literature of the past five centuries , with special emphasis on Montaigne and Swift . " More broadly , this book is about how the European ...
... ( Oxford , 2001 ) , and Erik Nils Ostenfeld ( ed . ) , Greek Romans and Roman Greeks ( Aarhus , 2002 ) . 13 There are a few important exceptions : Greek authors , such as Galen or Lucian of the second sophistic , who write about their ...