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Tales Barbarians
Contributor(s): Woolf, Greg (Author)
ISBN: 140516073X     ISBN-13: 9781405160735
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $91.15  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
- History | Ancient - Rome
Dewey: 937.07
LCCN: 2010030303
Series: Blackwell Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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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