different country and not understood a word he or she was saying? As far as you were concerned, they might as well have been saying, “Blah, blah, blah, blah.” To the ancient Greeks, it seemed that all foreigners were saying, “Bar, bar, bar, bar.” As a result, they called a foreigner barbaros, which is transliterated into English as “barbarian.” In the English language, a barbarian connotes one who is uncivilized. The Greeks held to the same view. Considering themselves as the only truly cultured