Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Panhellenic world and the world of empires; 3. The world of networks and the world of apoikiai; 4. Intercultural communication; 5. The barbarian repertoire in Greek culture; 6. Globalisation and glocalisation; 7. The Hellenistic world; 8. Conclusions.

Promotional Information

Examines the political, social, economic and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.

About the Author

Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor in Greek History at the University of Nottingham. His earlier publications include Unthinking the Greek Polis (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010); he is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (forthcoming). He is a member of the Institute for the Study of Slavery, the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network and the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies.

Reviews

'My favourite history book of the year so far? No contest: Kostas Vlassopoulos's Greeks and Barbarians … This book sets a new agenda in the field.' Paul Cartledge, BBC History Magazine

'One of this book's most admirable qualities is that its own curiosity is as boundless as that of the Greeks it describes. Its range of reference is dizzying. … comfortably the best general account of the topic in English (and one written accessibly for a wide student and general readership).' Thomas Harrison, Anglo-Hellenic Review