Table of Contents

Translations Used vii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1: Telling Tales on the Middle Ground 8

Chapter 2: Explaining the Barbarians 32

Chapter 3: Ethnography and Empire 59

Chapter 4: Enduring Fictions? 89

Notes 119

References 146

General Index 164

Index of Main Passages Discussed 168

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"A work of fundamental importance for students of ancientethnography. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice,1 November 2011) "By contrast, Woolf has rendered the topic in crisp and elegantprose. This reviewer suspects that, like good ancient ethnography,Woolf's contribution will very soon take on a life of its own".(Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 25 July 2011)