Greg Woolf

Tales Barbarians

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781405160735
• ISBN-10: 140516073X
• Artikelnr.: 32568103

Autorenporträt

Greg Woolf is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Becoming Roman: The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998), as well as the co-editor of Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (1994), and Rome the Cosmopolis (2003). In addition, Professor Woolf is editor of the Journal of Roman Studies and has written numerous articles on Roman history.

Inhaltsangabe

Translations Used

Introduction

1. Telling Tales on the Middle Ground

2. Explaining the Barbarians

3. Ethnography and Empire

4. Enduring Fictions?

Notes

References

General Index

Index of Main Passages Discussed

Rezensionen

"A work of fundamental importance for students of ancient ethnography. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 November 2011)

"By contrast, 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)

"Greg Woolf's wide-ranging and engaging study of ethnographic traditions about the "barbarian" west exposes the complex mixture of myth, stereotype, and information deriving from the interplay between inquirers and inhabitants and from the shifting circumstances that generated their creation and their transformation." Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley "Woolf dissects Greek and Roman ethnological accounts to give a voice to the otherwise silent people Rome conquered and analyses the role of myths in empire building." David Breeze, The University of Edinburgh