Tales of the Barbarians (E-Book, EPUB)
eBook - Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West, Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
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ISBN/EAN: 9781444390803
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 176 S., 0.36 MB
Erschienen am
01.12.2010
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
<i>Tales of the Barbarians</i> traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material.<ul><li>Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman West</li><li>Explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local experts</li><li>Offers a fresh perspective by examining passages from ancient writers in a new light</li></ul>
Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author ofBecoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998) andRome: An Empires Story (2012) as well as the co-editor ofLiteracy and Power in the Ancient World (with A. K. Bowman, 1994),Rome the Cosmopolis (with C. Edwards, 2003) andAncient Libraries (with J.König, 2013).
