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Phrygians: Euripides’ cowardly and inferior easterner via the slave character in Orestes (408 BCE)
Ancient author: Euripides (late fifth century BCE), Orestes 1350-1556 (link; link to Greek). Comments: As I clarified in the comments on Aeschylus’ Persians (link), Athenian writers of tragedies and comedies used their plays, in part, to portray foreigners or “barbarians,” and easterners (Persians and Trojans / Phrygians) were a principal target. As Edith Hall shows […]
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