Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation
- ISBN-10
- 1603849947
- ISBN-13
- 9781603849944
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 405
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
- Author
- Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Description
By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included.
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