Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography by Eric Adler
English | ISBN: 0292726287, 029274403X | 2011 | 300 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centered on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars have downplayed Roman elite anxiety about their empire's expansion.