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Episode 69, Slaves and Foreigners.

Many of the myths central to the Greeks deal with their encounters and conflicts with other peoples, such as the Trojan War, the Amazonomaki, and the Santaromaki, as well as the adventures of the Argonauts and the Odyssey, all of whom explored the outermost

reaches of geographical knowledge. These areas were thought to have been inhabited by monstrous

races, descriptions of whom were brought back by travelers, and were no doubt elaborated more and more each time.

For example, they include the Astomoy, or the mouthless ones who had holes in their faces instead of mouths.

The Skia Pods, or those with the who had holes in their faces instead of mouths.

The skia pods, or those with a shadow foot, a one-legged people who lied on their backs, shading

their heads from the sun with a single huge foot.

And the kenno keffalloy, or the dog head at ones, who communicate it by barking.

There of course were many other monstrous peoples and individuals, but no figure quite epitomizes

the horror of the other though, as the Cyclops named Polyphemus, whom Odysseus encounters in Book 9 of the Odyssey.

Solitary, monstrous and size, possessing a single eye in the center of his forehead,

stupid, contemptuous towards the gods, hostile towards strangers,

ignorant of seafaring and agriculture, and a lacto-vegan, except when human flesh comes his way.

In the Greek imagination, Polyphemus came to represent everything that they despised.

These types of monstrous races were naturally viewed as uncivilized by the Greeks and would come to be known as barbarians.

Precisely what a category of barbarian amounted to in practical terms is difficult to determine

though. The most plausible origin of the word is that the Greeks called Barbaroy or Barbarians

to those that uttered words that sounded to them like Barbar.

Barbarians in other words were people who could not speak Greek.

In time though, Barbarian also came to acquire the pejorative meaning of ignorant, brutal, and savage.

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