![]() | Rethinking the Other in Antiquity Subjects: Greeks -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500; Romans -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500; Aliens -- Greece -- Public opinion -- History -- To 1500; Aliens -- Rome -- Public opinion -- History; Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. -- Foreign influences; Rome; Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for the achievements and principles of other societies, and how they discerned--and even invented--kinship relations and shared roots with diverse peoples. Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics (emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition . |
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