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Research Project

Ancient Greek Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity

Project Team:

2023 – 2025
Detail of an early eighteenth-century map of the Mediterranean illustrating the voyage of St. Paul to Rome, with biblical illustrations. Lindenberg, De Reysen Christi des Heyland en Pauli met andere syne Bloedgetuygen, Amsterdam, 1703.

Detail of an early eighteenth-century map of the Mediterranean, with biblical illustrations. Lindenberg, De Reysen Christi des Heyland en Pauli met andere syne Bloedgetuygen, Amsterdam, 1703.

Key Question

Project Summary

The team on this project will edit a volume of essays on Plato and Aristotle’s understanding of racial and ethnic differences. The goal is to make the topic available to teachers, students, and researchers, as well as to set up debate for years to come.

Research Team

Project Narrative

Reading List

Kennedy, Rebecca F.; Roy, C. Sydnor; Goldman, Max L.

Race and Ethnicity In the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation Hackett Publishing, 2013 Read

McCoskey, Denise Eileen

A Cultural History of Race: In Antiquity Bloomsbury Press, 2021 Read

McCoskey, Denise Eileen

Race: Antiquity and its Legacy Bloomberg Publishing, 2012 Read

Kamtekar, Rachana

Distinction without a Difference? Plato on Race and Genos Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays Read

Ward, Julie K.

Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays Read

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