Inventing the Barbarian - Hall, Edith (Lecturer, Department of Classics, Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Reading)

The aim of this treatise is to explain the singular fascination ancient Greek tragedians felt for the non-Greek, "barbaric" world. It sets Greek drama against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars with Persia and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery.