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|| ||"A remarkably detailed and comprehensive study of the ways in which barbarians are conceptualized in ancient Greek texts, especially in tragedy....This is a highly useful and scholarly text."--Choice|||About the Author

Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism are some of the images used by Athenian tragedians to define the non-Greek, "barbarian" world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. Edith Hall sets the Greek plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars, and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. Analyzed within the ...

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