Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy

Author
Edith Hall
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"A groundbreaking study. Hall’s relentless probing of Greek tragedy to expose the ethnocentrism, stereotyping, and distorted images of non-Greeks in the plays fostered a wholesale shift in the reading of this genre and its undercurrents."

Recommended by Erich S. Gruen, Professor of History and Classics and author of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity.