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Persians: Aeschylus on “barbarian” hierarchy, luxury, and emotionalism (472 BCE)
Ancient author: Aeschylus (early fifth century BCE), Persians in full (link; link to Greek). Comments: Edith Hall’s ground-breaking work (of 1989) on Greek tragedy argues that the Greek concept of the “barbarian” other first emerged in reaction to the external Persian threat and that the earliest manifestation of the Greek-barbarian dichotomy is to be found […]
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