Tales of the Barbarians (E-Book) von Greg Woolf

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

• 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

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).