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dc.contributor.advisor | Corner, Sean | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | Mattison, Kathryn | - |
dc.contributor.advisor | Eilers, Claude | - |
dc.contributor.author | McCallum, Jonathon D. C. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-07T19:33:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-07T19:33:47Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014-11 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16058 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis looks to re-evaluate the East Greek intellectual view of non-Greeks in the middle to late fifth century. To do this I examine how ethnic difference is understood in the Hippocratic treatise Airs, Waters, Places (as well as the rest of the fifth-century Hippocratic corpus) and Herodotus' Histories, which together represent the new ethnographic thought of the fifth century. I will argue that neither author understood there to be any essential difference between Greeks and non-Greeks, nor represented non- Greeks as anti-Greeks, as many scholars today hold. Furthermore, I will argue that the idea of a Greek/barbarian dichotomy was to a considerable extent a construction of Athenian ideology, which stood in contrast to an East Greek cosmopolitanism that understood ethnic difference not in terms of differences in nature but of cultural variation within a common human condition. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Greek History | en_US |
dc.subject | Greek Ethnography | en_US |
dc.subject | Herodotus | en_US |
dc.subject | Hippocrates | en_US |
dc.subject | East Greece | en_US |
dc.subject | Greek Identity | en_US |
dc.title | Understanding the 'Other' in an East Greek Context | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Classics | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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