Tales of the Barbarians
Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Format:Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:24th Jan '14
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Tales of the Barbarians 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.
- Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman West
- Explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local experts
- Offers a fresh perspective by examining passages from ancient writers in a new light
"A work of fundamental importance for students of ancient ethnography. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 November 2011)
"Woolf has rendered the topic in crisp and elegant prose. This reviewer suspects that, like good ancient ethnography, Woolf's contribution will very soon take on a life of its own." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 25 July 2011)
“W. provides new insights into ancient texts, and stimulating new ways of looking at these ancient views of barbarians — chasing his ‘middle ground’ provides an exciting challenge for Romanists working with other fields of evidence.” (Britannia, May 2013)
"With Greg Woolf’s brief Tales of the Barbarians we are at peace, but constantly made to sit up, not only by single opinions but by the overall ways in which Woolf asks us to read the material, in particular by his convincing stress on ‘the middle ground’ where explorers and natives have met, in western Europe and America." (Greece & Rome, April 2013)
ISBN: 9781118785102
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
Weight: 231g
176 pages