https://grafemas.net/categories/racialization/ Recent content in racialization on Γραφεμας Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/said-hall/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://grafemas.net/blog/race/said-hall/ Edith Hall’s Inventing the Barbarian (1989) and Suzanne Saïd’s chapter “Greeks and Barbarians in Euripides' Tragedies: The End of Differences?” (1984) share the same object of study: the representation of non-Greek peoples in fifth-century Athenian tragedy. However, they significantly differ in their conclusions. Reading them together is a clarifying exercise in how racializing discourse operates in ancient texts. They disagreement is not about the evidence but about the modality of the discourse that the authors perceived.