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Tales of the Barbarians

Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West

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

Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West Greg Woolf. i For what follows, and
especially for encouragement to look at Manilius' ethnography, i am very grateful
to Duncan Kennedy. On Manilius' context see now Katharina Volk, Manilius and
his Intellectual Background (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). %
Tamsyn Barton, Power and Knowledge. Astrology, physiognomics and medicine
under the Roman Empire (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, ...