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Greek History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2014

Kostas Vlassopoulos
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The interaction between Greeks and non-Greeks is an increasingly popular subject among Greek historians, as shown by four important books reviewed here: their significance lies in the various challenges that they pose to the still dominant structuralist approach, which focuses on polarity and alterity and privileges certain discourses in literary texts over the diversity encountered when one examines the totality of the evidence. All four books put at the centre of their attention the significance and consequences of real-life encounters and interactions between people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , April 2014 , pp. 123 - 129
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2014 

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