Ehhh... it is the Romans that are "barbarian" to the Greeks, to the Romans the Greeks were (or became in the period 200 BC- 148 BC) a people admired for their cultural achievements, but viewed with contempt for their lack ot other achievements and constant internal squabbling and infighting in a world that the Romans percieved themselves as conquering and bringing order in. Romans contemptuously called the Greeks "Graeculi" "Little Greeks", so use that instead of "barbarian" if you want to insult the Greeks and Hellene Lovers. bararian is a Greek word and though most cultures around the world understand the concept (us = good, the others = bad), the Greeks refined and named it.