Tales Barbarians by Woolf, Greg

Tales Barbarians (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405160735)

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Tales Barbarians by Woolf, Greg

Tales Barbarians

$95.95
Tales Barbarians by Woolf, Greg

Tales Barbarians

$95.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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


Author: Greg Woolf
ISBN-10: 140516073X
ISBN-13: 9781405160735
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2011
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2011
By Greg Woolf
By Greg Woolf
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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.

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