Tales of the barbarians : ethnography and empire in the Roman West /

• Main Author: Woolf, Greg
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Series: Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition.
• Subjects: Acculturation > Rome.; National characteristics, West European.; Rome > Ethnic relations.; Rome > Culture policy.; Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Telling Tales on the Middle Ground
• Explaining the Barbarians
• Ethnography and Empire
• Enduring Fictions?
• Notes
• References
• General Index
• Index of Main Passages Discussed.
• Telling tales on the middle ground
• Explaining the barbarians
• Ethnography and empire
• Enduring fictions?