{"product_id":"tales-of-the-barbarians-9781118785102","title":"Tales of the Barbarians","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTales 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A work of fundamental importance for students of ancient ethnography. Summing Up: Essential. All levels\/libraries.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 November 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Woolf has rendered the topic in crisp and elegant prose. This reviewer suspects that, like good ancient ethnography, Woolf's contribution will very soon take on a life of its own.\" (\u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 25 July 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“W. provides new insights into ancient texts, and stimulating new ways of looking at these ancient views of barbarians — chasing his ‘middle ground’ provides an exciting challenge for Romanists working with other fields of evidence.” (\u003ci\u003eBritannia\u003c\/i\u003e, May 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With Greg Woolf’s brief \u003ci\u003eTales of the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e we are at peace, but constantly made to sit up, not only by single opinions but by the overall ways in which Woolf asks us to read the material, in particular by his convincing stress on ‘the middle ground’ where explorers and natives have met, in western Europe and America.\" (\u003ci\u003eGreece \u0026amp; Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslations Used vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Telling Tales on the Middle Ground 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Explaining the Barbarians 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Ethnography and Empire 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Enduring Fictions? 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Index 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Main Passages Discussed 168\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406922686807,"sku":"9781118785102","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118785102.jpg?v=1730497570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tales-of-the-barbarians-9781118785102","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}