CLAS 4375:  GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

REVIEW GUIDE FOR TOPIC 8--US AND THEM: "BARBARIANS"



REREAD Aeschylus, Persians (in a contemporary transl. with some notes by Profs. N. McCloskey and J. Porter, U. of Saskatchewan)

KNOW:

How the modern concepts of race, naionality, and ethnicity cannot be applied to the ancient world without examination.

Be familiar with representations and concepts of the "barbarian" in ancient Greece

SOURCES:

Cartledge, The Greeks, Chapters 1, 3

Greek texts  related to our concepts
of race, nationality, and ethnicity

Introduction to Aeschylus, Persians   (USEFUL!)


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