Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China

by Hyun Jin Kim

Why did the Greeks claim to be superior to their neighbors and yet record, rightly or wrongly, that the founders of some of their most important cities were foreigners from the Near East? Can we find similar ethnocentric representations of outsiders in the literature of the other great literate civilization of the Ancient World, Early China? How do the Greek and Chinese representations of the foreigner differ? These questions are examined in a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715638076
• ISBN13: 9780715638071
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"