Refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored ethnic and cultural, but not racial, prejudice. This book traces the intellectual origins ... » 

Refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored ethnic and cultural, but not racial, prejudice. This book traces the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. It provides an analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. «