
The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity
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Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xii
INTRODUCTION 1
PART 1: STEREOTYPES AND PROTO-RACISM: CRITERIA FOR DIFFERENTIATION 53
CHAPTER 1
Superior and Inferior Peoples 55
CHAPTER 2
Conquest and Imperialism 169
CHAPTER 3
Fears and Suppression 225
Conclusions to Part 1, Chapters 2 and 3 248
PART 2: GREEK AND ROMAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPECIFIC GROUPS-GREEK AND ROMAN IMPERIALISM 253
INTRODUCTION TO PART 2 255
CHAPTER 4
Greeks and the East 257
CHAPTER 5
Roman Imperialism and the Conquest of the East 304
CHAPTER 6
Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Syrians 324
CHAPTER 7
Egyptians 352
CHAPTER 8
Parthia/Persia 371
CHAPTER 9
Roman Views of Greeks 381
CHAPTER 10
Mountaineers and Plainsmen 406
CHAPTER 11
Gauls 411
CHAPTER 12
Germans 427
CHAPTER 13
Jews 440
Conclusions to Part 2 492
END CONCLUSIONS 501
Ethnic Prejudice, Proto-Racism and Imperialism in Antiquity 503
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 517
INDEX OF SOURCES 541
GENERAL INDEX 553
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