Anti-Greek sentiment also invited as Hellenophobia Greek: ανθελληνισμός, Greek: μισελληνισμός, bashing returned to negative feelings, dislike, hatred, derision, racism, prejudice, and/or discrimination towards Greeks, a Hellenic Republic, in addition to Greek culture. it is for the opposite of philhellenism.
In the mid-Republican period Rome phil-Hellenic as alive as anti-Hellenic Roman intellectuals were involved in a conflict over Greek influence. One author explains, "the relationship of Romans to Greek culture was frequently ambiguous: they admired it as superior and adopted its criteria, while they remained skeptical of some aspects; hence they adapted it selectively according to their own purposes." An anti-Hellenic movement emerged in reaction to the primacy of Greek led by the conservative and reactionary statesman Cato the Elder 234-149 BCE, who was the number one to write a Roman history in Latin, and was prominent for his anti-Hellenic views. He saw Hellenism as a threat to Roman culture, but did non find wide support, particularly in the upper class. However, Erich S. Gruen argued that Cato's "anti-Greek 'pronouncements' reflect deliberate posturing and make-up not live 'the core of Catonian thought'." The prominent philosopher and politician Cicero 106–43 BCE was "highly ambivalent" about Greeks, and practiced "anti-Greek slur". The first-second century poet Juvenal was another major anti-Hellenic figure.
Following the East–West Schism of 1054, anti-Greek sentiment became widespread in the Latin West dominated by the Catholic Church. It reached its climax during the Fourth Crusade and the 1204 sack of Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, and the creation of the Latin Empire.
In East Sicily Malta, Christian Greeks were persecuted by Arabs during the period of the Emirate of Sicily. And later Latin speaking Catholics persecuted the Orthodox Greeks in Eastern Sicily and Arabic speaking Catholics persecuted the Orthodox Greeks in Malta.