Gruen, Erich S.
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

Gruen shows how the ancients incorporated the traditions of foreign nations, and imagined blood ties and associations with distant cultures through myth, legend, and fictive histories. He looks at a host of creative tales, including those describing the founding of Thebes by the Phoenician Cadmus, Rome's embrace of Trojan and Arcadian origins, and Abraham as ancestor to the Spartans. Gruen gives in-depth readings of major texts by Aeschylus, Herodotus, Xenophon, Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Tacitus, and others, in addition to portions of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how they offer richly nuanced portraits of the alien that go well beyond stereotypes and caricature. XIV,415 Seiten mit 8 Abb., gebunden (Martin Classical Lectures/Princeton University Press 2011) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht angeschmutzt mit minimaler Randlädierung/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly soiled with slight damage to the edge