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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... the American Philological Association Yale Classical Studies Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina - Vereins Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik Introduction LESS THAN A CENTURY AGO nobody would write or xiv ABBREVIATIONS .
Benjamin Isaac. Introduction LESS THAN A CENTURY AGO nobody would write or wish to read a book about racism . Indeed nobody was aware that such a thing existed , for the word does not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) of ...
... less credence in climatic causation : Johnson Formation , p . 48 . 22 Voltaire , Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations 1 [ 1756 ] ( Paris 1963 ) , 6 ; English transla- tion : Robert Bernasconi and Tommy L. Lott , The Idea of Race ...
... less systematic manner . Where appropriate , it will indicate continuity by referring to later authors who adopt the ancient con- cepts . Unavoidably , there are interesting , related phenomena which cannot be included in this ...
... less systematic manner.34 It was my impres- sion that it would not be profitable to do more than that , because the essentials of the patterns analyzed in this study do not change thereafter . The next deci- sion then was whether to ...