Woolf Tales of the Barbarians

Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9079-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten, E-Book

Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of newmythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to theAtlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographictheory to ancient material.
* Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge atthe turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in theRoman West
* Explores how ancient geography, local histories and the storiesof wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and localexperts
* Offers a fresh perspective by examining passages fromancient writers in a new light

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woolf, Greg

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Translations Used vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Telling Tales on the Middle Ground 8
Chapter 2: Explaining the Barbarians 32
Chapter 3: Ethnography and Empire 59
Chapter 4: Enduring Fictions? 89
Notes 119
References 146
General Index 164
Index of Main Passages Discussed 168

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at theUniversity of St. Andrews. He is the author of Becoming Roman:The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998) andRome: An Empire's Story (2012) as well as theco-editor of Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (withA. K. Bowman, 1994), Rome the Cosmopolis (with C. Edwards,2003) and Ancient Libraries (with J.König,2013).