Tales of the barbarians : ethnography and empire in the Roman West / Greg Woolf.
| Author/creator | Woolf, Greg author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. |
| Description | viii, 167 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Supplemental Content | Book review (H-Net) |
| Subjects |
| Series | Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition. Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition. |
| Contents | Telling tales on the middle ground -- Explaining the barbarians -- Ethnography and empire -- Enduring fictions? |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-163) and index. |
| Genre/form | History |
| LCCN | 2010030303 |
| ISBN | 9781405160735 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 140516073X (hardcover ; alk. paper) |