Tag: Antiquity

Who were called barbarians in antiquity?

In antiquity, the term “barbarians” originated in ancient Greece. The Greeks called all foreigners who did not know their language barbarians (the word “bar-bar” originally was something like the modern “blah-blah-blah”), meaning “muttering”. The ancie...

Is there a ???race??? or ???ethnicity??? in Greco-Roman antiquity?

Assome readers of this blog ( https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/) know, I am currently working on a book that has been about 10 years in the making — a discussion of race and ethnicity in Greco-Roman antiquity and some of its modern implications and complications (I talked about it wi...