The essays collected in this volume focus on the Ancient Greeks\u2019 perception of foreigners and of foreign lands as potential sources of knowledge. They aim at exploring the hypothesis that the most adventurous intellectuals saw foreign lands and foreigners as repositories of knowledge that the Greeks \u03c3\u03bf\u03c6\u03bf\u03af had to engage with, in the hope of bringing back home valuables in the form of new ideas.<\/p>\n
It is a common place to state that the \u201cGreeks\u201d displayed xenophobia, which is probably best exemplified in the binary and ethnocentric division of humanity in two groups: the Greek world (i.e., the hellenophones) and the others, the Barbarians \u2013 those who speak foreign languages. This attitude of insularism and defiance, however, did not hinder the curiosity of Greek and Roman societies towards strangers. Lycurgus, Pythagoras, Democritus, etc.: there is a long list of sages and philosophers who travelled around the world for a significant period of time. The Greeks had a rich and varied relationship with foreign lands and people, which made possible a real circulation of knowledge throughout the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic times; this is also true of the Roman Empire. Each of the articles included in this collective work explore one aspect of the \u201cstranger\u201d as a possible source of knowledge, with contributions mostly focused on Plato, Xenophon, Democritus, Aristotle, Diogenes, Cicero and Galen.<\/p>\n
TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/p>\n
Foreword \u2014 Beno\u00eet Casteln\u00e9rac and Laetitia Monteils-Laeng<\/p>\n
Remarques sur les emplois stylistiques de \u03be\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2, \u03be\u03b5\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 et \u03b3\u03bb\u1ff6\u03c4\u03c4\u03b1 \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Rehbinder<\/p>\n
Democritus, B 299 (D.K.). Alien Wisdom, Geometry, and the Contemporary Prose Landscape \u2014 Ilaria Andolfi<\/p>\n
\u00c9trang\u00e8ret\u00e9 du vrai et politique chez Platon \u2014 \u00c9tienne Helmer<\/p>\n
Cephalus: A Role Model for the Producers in Plato\u2019s Kallipolis \u2014 Anna Schriefl<\/p>\n
Xenophobia in Utopia: On the Metics in Plato\u2019s Laws \u2014 David Merry<\/p>\n
Social Science and Universalism in Xenophon\u2019s Oeconomicus IV \u2014 Zoli Filotas<\/p>\n
Aristotle on the Intellectual Achievements of Foreign Civilizations \u2014 Mor Segev<\/p>\n
Carthage: Aristotle\u2019s Best (non-Greek) Constitution? \u2014 Thornton C. Lockwood, Jr.<\/p>\n
Translatio, Imitatio, Aemulatio: Assimilation of Greek Thought in Cicero\u2019s Philosophical Writings \u2014 Katarzyna Borkowska<\/p>\n
\u00c9trangers ou \u00e9tranges ? La sagesse des confins et la connaissance du monde dans la litt\u00e9rature grecque des premiers si\u00e8cles de l\u2019empire \u2014 Marine Gl\u00e9nisson<\/p>\n
D\u00e9terminisme environnemental et influence culturelle : la vision de l\u2019\u00e9tranger chez Galien \u2014 Julien Devinant<\/p>\n
Le privil\u00e8ge philosophique de l\u2019\u00e9tranger \u2014 Isabelle Chouinard<\/p>\n
Index of Passages<\/p>\n
Index of Ancient Names and Places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"