Vol. 19 No. 1-2 (1993): XIX - 1993, Fascicolo 2-3
Articoli

Lo stereotipo della superiorità della cultura greca: la situazione in epoca imperiale attraverso le testimonianze di Plutarco e Galeno

Published 2015-09-14

Keywords

  • Plutarch,
  • Galen,
  • Greek & barbarians

Abstract

Textual evidence shows that neither Plutarch nor Galen did practise any kind of racial or physical discrimination. Their idea of Hellenic superiority was a purely cultural one, so that education could make ‘barbarians’ pretty equal to the Greeks.