Among the Barbarians
James Romm: The Other, 15 December 2011
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity
by Erich Gruen.
Princeton, 415 pp., £27.95, January 2011,978 0 691 14852 6 Show More
by Erich Gruen.
Princeton, 415 pp., £27.95, January 2011,
“... iron hand. The double perspective offered by Herodotus makes clear the complexities of the topic Erich Gruen has taken on in Rethinking the Other in Antiquity. Ancient attitudes towards cultural difference can be recovered, principally from surviving texts, but these texts pose various problems. They form a far from complete record of all that was ... ”