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Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World : An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation.

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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Race and Ethnicity: Modern Concepts, Ancient Texts -- Organization and Structure -- Notes on the Translations -- Maps -- Theories -- Chapter 1. Homer and Hesiod: Early Theories of Foreignness -- 1. Homer, Odyssey 1.22-26 -- 2. Homer, Odyssey 4.77-89 -- 3. Homer, Odyssey 4.219-232 -- 4. Homer, Odyssey 7.22-36, 7.77-132 -- 5. Homer, Odyssey 9.105-139, 9.171-298 -- 6. Homer, Odyssey 10.1-19, 10.87-124 -- 7. Homer, Odyssey 11.119-134 -- 8. Homer, Odyssey 15.380-453 -- 9. Hesiod, Works and Days 109-181 -- Chapter 2. Genealogies and Origins -- 1. Pindar, Olympian 9.40-46 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 7.150 -- 3. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2-12 -- 4. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.2-6 -- 5. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.89-90 -- 6. Livy, From the Founding of the City 1.1-4, 1.8-9 -- 7. Vergil, Aeneid 3.94-113, 3.161-171 -- 8. Vergil, Aeneid 12.818-840 -- 9. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.78-88 -- 10. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.225-227 -- 11. Tacitus, Annals 11.24.1 -- 12. Pausanius, Description of Greece 10.4.4 -- 13. [Apollodorus], The Library 1.7.2 -- 14. [Apollodorus], The Library 2.1.4 -- 15. Hyginus, Genealogies 178 -- Chapter 3. Environmental Theories -- 1. Hippocratic Corpus, On Airs, Waters, Places 12-24 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 3.12 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 9.122 -- 4. Xenophon, Agesilaos 1.27-28 -- 5. Aristotle, Politics 7.5.6 (1327b) -- 6. [Aristotle], Physiognomics 806b15 -- 7. Cicero, On Divination 2.96-97 -- 8. Vitruvius, On Architecture 6.1.3-5, 6.1.8-11 -- 9. Manilius, Astronomica 4.711-730 -- 10. Seneca, On Anger 2.15 -- 11. Pliny the Elder, Natural Histories 2.79-80 -- 12. Apuleius, Apology 24 -- 13. Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 2.2 -- 14. Vegetius, On Military Matters 1.2.
Chapter 4. Genetic Theories -- 1. Athenian Citizenship Law of 451 BCE (from Plutarch, Life) -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 3.101.2 -- 3. Euripides, Suppliants 219-225 -- 4. Euripides, Ion 57-75, 260-272, 289-296, 585-594, 1295-1305,1569-1594 -- 5. Euripides, Phoenician Women 818-821, 931-944 -- 6. Euripides, Bacchae 538-544 -- 7. Plato, Timaeus 18d-19a -- 8. Plato, Republic 414d-415c, 459a-e -- 9. Plato, Menexenus 237b-238b, 238e-239a -- 10. Plato, Laws 3.692e-693a -- 11. Aristotle, Politics 5.2.10-11 (1303a25-40) -- 12. Aristotle, Politics 1.1.5 (1252b), 1.2.7, 1.2.12-14, 1.2.18-19 (1254a-1255a excerpted) -- Chapter 5. Custom or Cultural Theories -- 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 234-294 -- 2. Antiphon, On Truth, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1364 and 3647 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 1.56.2-57.3 -- 4. Herodotus, Histories 3.16, 3.27-29, 3.38 -- 5. Herodotus, Histories 5.22 -- 6. Herodotus, Histories 8.144 -- 7. Euripides, Andromache 155-180 -- 8. Euripides, Cyclops 11-26, 113-128, 275-304, 316-346 -- 9. Anonymous, Dissoi Logoi 2.9-18 -- 10. Isocrates, Panegyric 50 -- 11. Demosthenes, Third Philippic 30-32 -- 12. Polybius, Histories 6.47 -- 13. Cicero, Academica Posteriora 1.9 -- 14. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.239-241 -- 15. Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus 4.5, 27.3-4 -- 16. Plutarch, Life of Alexander 45, 47.3-4, 50.4-51.3, 71.1-3, 74.1 -- 17. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 5.5.2 -- 18. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 8.2.1-4 -- The Peoples of the Ancient World -- Chapter 6. The Inhabited World -- 1. Pindar, Olympian 3.1-41 -- 2. [Aeschylus], Prometheus Bound 786-815, 829-843 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 4.36-45 -- 4. Apollonius, Argonautica 1.922-954 -- 5. Catullus, 11.1-16 -- 6. Catullus, 29 -- 7. Vergil, Aeneid 8.655-662, 8.685-713, 8.720-728 -- 8. Strabo, Geography 17.3.24 -- 9. Horace, Carmen Saeculare 37-60.
10. Horace, Odes 3.4.29-36, 3.8.17-24, 4.14.41-52 -- 11. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 1.3-8, 1.11-14,1.18-19, 1.22-23 -- 12. Propertius, Elegies 3.11 -- 13. Pliny, Natural History 7.6, 7.9-32 -- 14. Martial, Epigrams 7.30 -- 15. [Apollodorus], The Library 2.5.11 -- 16. [Apollodorus], The Library 3.5.1-3 -- 17. Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 2.3.59-72 -- Chapter 7. Africa: Egypt -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 2.2-5, 2.13-18, 2.28, 2.30-32, 2.35-42,2.46-48 -- 2. Plato, Timaeus 21e-24d -- 3. Plato, Laws 2.656d-657a -- 4. Strabo, Geography 17.1.3, 17.1.19, 17.1.39-40, 17.1.44, 17.1.52-53,17.2.5 -- 5. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 1.57-59 -- 6. Horace, Odes 1.37 -- 7. Lucan, Civil War 10.20-135, 10.172-331 -- 8. Juvenal, Satire 15.1-13, 15.27-93, 15.100-131 -- 9. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.299e-300b -- 10. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 4.3-5, 4.11.3-4.12, 4.18.3-19 -- Chapter 8. North Africa: Libya, Carthage, and Numidia -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 4.168-197 -- 2. Pseudo-Aristotle, On Marvelous Things Heard 84, 100, 132 -- 3. Polybius, Histories 6.51-52, 6.56 -- 4. Sallust, War with Jugurtha 6-13, 17-19, 89-91 -- 5. Strabo, Geography 17.3.7, 17.3.15 -- 6. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 1.41-48 -- 7. Livy, From the Founding of the City 21.1, 21.39-44, 22.59 -- 8. Lucan, Civil War 9.341-949 -- 9. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 2.14.9-10 -- Chapter 9. Africa: Ethiopia and Beyond -- 1. Hanno of Carthage, Periplous -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 3.20, 3.22 -- 3. Pseudo-Scylax, Periplous 112.8-12 -- 4. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 2.55-60 -- 5. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 3.1-10 -- 6. Strabo, Geography 1.2.28 -- 7. Strabo, Geography 17.2.1-3 -- 8. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 3.85-88 -- 9. Anonymous, Moretum 27-35 -- 10. Pliny, Natural History 5.43-46.
11. Pliny, Natural History 6.182-183, 6.187-195, 6.198-205 -- 12. Petronius, Satyricon 102.14-15 -- 13. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 3.25 -- 14. Heliodorus, Aethiopica 14.3-16.2 -- Chapter 10. Asia: Persia, Media, Babylon,and Parthia -- Persia -- 1. Aeschylus, Persians 1-92, 176-199, 231-245, 249-271, 402-405,535-597, 623-906 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories Introduction and 1.1-5 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 1.95.2-102 -- 4. Herodotus, Histories 1.131-140 -- 5. Herodotus, Histories 1.178-187 -- 6. Herodotus, Histories 1.192-200 -- 7. Aristophanes, Acharnians 61-125 -- 8. Isocrates, Panegyricus 150-152 -- 9. Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.2-8, 1.3.2, 4-5, 1.3.18 excerpted -- 10. Livy, From the Foundation of the City 9.17.16 -- 11. Philostratus the Lemnian, Imagines 2.31.1-2 -- 12. Hyginus, Genealogies 27 -- Parthians -- 13. Horace, Odes 1.2.49-52, 1.19.9-12, 1.38.1-4, 2.13.13-20 -- 14. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.177-228 -- 15. Lucan, Civil War 8.289-308, 8.371-388 -- 16. CIL XI 137 -- 17. Plutarch, Life of Crassus 24-28, 31 -- Chapter 11. Asia: Judea and the Jewish Diaspora -- 1. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 34/35.1.1-5 -- 2. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 40.3.1-8 -- 3. Cicero, On Behalf of Flaccus 67-69 -- 4. Philo of Alexandria, On Special Laws 1.1.2-3 -- 5. Philo of Alexandria, On the Virtues 134-141 -- 6. Philo of Alexandria, Apology for the Jews -- 7. Philo of Alexandria, Against Flaccus 53-57 -- 8. Strabo, Geography 16.2.35-37 -- 9. Horace, Satires 1.4.138-143 -- 10. Petronius, Carmina 50 -- 11. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.213-217, 14.223-227 -- 12. Tacitus, Histories 5.1-5, 5.8 -- 13. Juvenal, Satires 3.10-21 -- 14. Juvenal, Satires 6.542-547 -- 15. Juvenal, Satires 8.155-162 -- 16. Juvenal, Satires 14.96-106 -- 17. Martial, Epigrams 11.94 -- 18. Plutarch, On Superstition 169c8-10.
19. Plutarch, Dinner Conversations 669f-670a, 670d-f, 671c-672c -- Chapter 12. Asia: Arabia -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 3.107-113 -- 2. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 2.49-54 -- 3. Strabo, Geography 16.4.22, 16.4.25-27 -- 4. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 3.75, 3.81-84 -- 5. Babrius, Fables 57 -- Chapter 13. Asia: India, China, and the Edges of the World -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 3.98-105 -- 2. Ctesias, Indica Fragment 1 excerpted -- 3. Arrian, Indica 1-17 excerpted -- 4. Strabo, Geography 15.1.57-60, 15.1.62-67, 15.1.69-71 -- 5. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 3.62-65 -- 6. Pliny, Natural History 20.54-55, 24.84-91 -- 7. Plutarch, Life of Alexander 60, 62-65 -- 8. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 2.18 -- 9. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.6-9 -- 10. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.20 -- Chapter 14. Europe: The Black Sea Region -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 1.215-216 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 4.2-3, 4.5-12, 4.17-27, 4.46, 4.59-76, 4.78-80, 4.93-96, 4.102-107 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 4.110-117 -- 4. Herodotus, Histories 5.3-9 -- 5. Euripides, Medea 1-8, 29-35, 223, 253-258, 534-541, 1323-1343 -- 6. Euripides, Iphigenia among the Taurians 28-41, 179-185, 392-421, 1153-1175 -- 7. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.96-97 -- 8. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.27, 7.29 excerpted -- 9. Apollonius, Argonautica 2.317-406, 2.411-418, 2.962-1029 -- 10. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 2.44-47 -- 11. Ovid, Heroides 12.7-10, 12.21-28, 12.101-112, 12.121-124 -- 12. Ovid, Tristia 5.7.1-24, 41-68 -- 13. Seneca, Medea 42-54, 116-134, 203-216, 301-379, 397-414, 483-489, 670-739 -- 14. Pliny, Natural History 4.89-91 -- Chapter 15. Europe: Gaul, Germany,and Britain -- 1. Polybius, The Histories 2.17.3-12 -- 2. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.27-32.
3. Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 1.1.
Summary: 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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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Race and Ethnicity: Modern Concepts, Ancient Texts -- Organization and Structure -- Notes on the Translations -- Maps -- Theories -- Chapter 1. Homer and Hesiod: Early Theories of Foreignness -- 1. Homer, Odyssey 1.22-26 -- 2. Homer, Odyssey 4.77-89 -- 3. Homer, Odyssey 4.219-232 -- 4. Homer, Odyssey 7.22-36, 7.77-132 -- 5. Homer, Odyssey 9.105-139, 9.171-298 -- 6. Homer, Odyssey 10.1-19, 10.87-124 -- 7. Homer, Odyssey 11.119-134 -- 8. Homer, Odyssey 15.380-453 -- 9. Hesiod, Works and Days 109-181 -- Chapter 2. Genealogies and Origins -- 1. Pindar, Olympian 9.40-46 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 7.150 -- 3. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.2-12 -- 4. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.2-6 -- 5. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.89-90 -- 6. Livy, From the Founding of the City 1.1-4, 1.8-9 -- 7. Vergil, Aeneid 3.94-113, 3.161-171 -- 8. Vergil, Aeneid 12.818-840 -- 9. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.78-88 -- 10. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.225-227 -- 11. Tacitus, Annals 11.24.1 -- 12. Pausanius, Description of Greece 10.4.4 -- 13. [Apollodorus], The Library 1.7.2 -- 14. [Apollodorus], The Library 2.1.4 -- 15. Hyginus, Genealogies 178 -- Chapter 3. Environmental Theories -- 1. Hippocratic Corpus, On Airs, Waters, Places 12-24 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 3.12 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 9.122 -- 4. Xenophon, Agesilaos 1.27-28 -- 5. Aristotle, Politics 7.5.6 (1327b) -- 6. [Aristotle], Physiognomics 806b15 -- 7. Cicero, On Divination 2.96-97 -- 8. Vitruvius, On Architecture 6.1.3-5, 6.1.8-11 -- 9. Manilius, Astronomica 4.711-730 -- 10. Seneca, On Anger 2.15 -- 11. Pliny the Elder, Natural Histories 2.79-80 -- 12. Apuleius, Apology 24 -- 13. Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 2.2 -- 14. Vegetius, On Military Matters 1.2.

Chapter 4. Genetic Theories -- 1. Athenian Citizenship Law of 451 BCE (from Plutarch, Life) -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 3.101.2 -- 3. Euripides, Suppliants 219-225 -- 4. Euripides, Ion 57-75, 260-272, 289-296, 585-594, 1295-1305,1569-1594 -- 5. Euripides, Phoenician Women 818-821, 931-944 -- 6. Euripides, Bacchae 538-544 -- 7. Plato, Timaeus 18d-19a -- 8. Plato, Republic 414d-415c, 459a-e -- 9. Plato, Menexenus 237b-238b, 238e-239a -- 10. Plato, Laws 3.692e-693a -- 11. Aristotle, Politics 5.2.10-11 (1303a25-40) -- 12. Aristotle, Politics 1.1.5 (1252b), 1.2.7, 1.2.12-14, 1.2.18-19 (1254a-1255a excerpted) -- Chapter 5. Custom or Cultural Theories -- 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 234-294 -- 2. Antiphon, On Truth, Oxyrhynchus Papyri 1364 and 3647 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 1.56.2-57.3 -- 4. Herodotus, Histories 3.16, 3.27-29, 3.38 -- 5. Herodotus, Histories 5.22 -- 6. Herodotus, Histories 8.144 -- 7. Euripides, Andromache 155-180 -- 8. Euripides, Cyclops 11-26, 113-128, 275-304, 316-346 -- 9. Anonymous, Dissoi Logoi 2.9-18 -- 10. Isocrates, Panegyric 50 -- 11. Demosthenes, Third Philippic 30-32 -- 12. Polybius, Histories 6.47 -- 13. Cicero, Academica Posteriora 1.9 -- 14. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 12.239-241 -- 15. Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus 4.5, 27.3-4 -- 16. Plutarch, Life of Alexander 45, 47.3-4, 50.4-51.3, 71.1-3, 74.1 -- 17. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 5.5.2 -- 18. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 8.2.1-4 -- The Peoples of the Ancient World -- Chapter 6. The Inhabited World -- 1. Pindar, Olympian 3.1-41 -- 2. [Aeschylus], Prometheus Bound 786-815, 829-843 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 4.36-45 -- 4. Apollonius, Argonautica 1.922-954 -- 5. Catullus, 11.1-16 -- 6. Catullus, 29 -- 7. Vergil, Aeneid 8.655-662, 8.685-713, 8.720-728 -- 8. Strabo, Geography 17.3.24 -- 9. Horace, Carmen Saeculare 37-60.

10. Horace, Odes 3.4.29-36, 3.8.17-24, 4.14.41-52 -- 11. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 1.3-8, 1.11-14,1.18-19, 1.22-23 -- 12. Propertius, Elegies 3.11 -- 13. Pliny, Natural History 7.6, 7.9-32 -- 14. Martial, Epigrams 7.30 -- 15. [Apollodorus], The Library 2.5.11 -- 16. [Apollodorus], The Library 3.5.1-3 -- 17. Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 2.3.59-72 -- Chapter 7. Africa: Egypt -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 2.2-5, 2.13-18, 2.28, 2.30-32, 2.35-42,2.46-48 -- 2. Plato, Timaeus 21e-24d -- 3. Plato, Laws 2.656d-657a -- 4. Strabo, Geography 17.1.3, 17.1.19, 17.1.39-40, 17.1.44, 17.1.52-53,17.2.5 -- 5. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 1.57-59 -- 6. Horace, Odes 1.37 -- 7. Lucan, Civil War 10.20-135, 10.172-331 -- 8. Juvenal, Satire 15.1-13, 15.27-93, 15.100-131 -- 9. Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.299e-300b -- 10. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 4.3-5, 4.11.3-4.12, 4.18.3-19 -- Chapter 8. North Africa: Libya, Carthage, and Numidia -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 4.168-197 -- 2. Pseudo-Aristotle, On Marvelous Things Heard 84, 100, 132 -- 3. Polybius, Histories 6.51-52, 6.56 -- 4. Sallust, War with Jugurtha 6-13, 17-19, 89-91 -- 5. Strabo, Geography 17.3.7, 17.3.15 -- 6. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 1.41-48 -- 7. Livy, From the Founding of the City 21.1, 21.39-44, 22.59 -- 8. Lucan, Civil War 9.341-949 -- 9. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 2.14.9-10 -- Chapter 9. Africa: Ethiopia and Beyond -- 1. Hanno of Carthage, Periplous -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 3.20, 3.22 -- 3. Pseudo-Scylax, Periplous 112.8-12 -- 4. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 2.55-60 -- 5. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 3.1-10 -- 6. Strabo, Geography 1.2.28 -- 7. Strabo, Geography 17.2.1-3 -- 8. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 3.85-88 -- 9. Anonymous, Moretum 27-35 -- 10. Pliny, Natural History 5.43-46.

11. Pliny, Natural History 6.182-183, 6.187-195, 6.198-205 -- 12. Petronius, Satyricon 102.14-15 -- 13. Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon 3.25 -- 14. Heliodorus, Aethiopica 14.3-16.2 -- Chapter 10. Asia: Persia, Media, Babylon,and Parthia -- Persia -- 1. Aeschylus, Persians 1-92, 176-199, 231-245, 249-271, 402-405,535-597, 623-906 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories Introduction and 1.1-5 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 1.95.2-102 -- 4. Herodotus, Histories 1.131-140 -- 5. Herodotus, Histories 1.178-187 -- 6. Herodotus, Histories 1.192-200 -- 7. Aristophanes, Acharnians 61-125 -- 8. Isocrates, Panegyricus 150-152 -- 9. Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.2.2-8, 1.3.2, 4-5, 1.3.18 excerpted -- 10. Livy, From the Foundation of the City 9.17.16 -- 11. Philostratus the Lemnian, Imagines 2.31.1-2 -- 12. Hyginus, Genealogies 27 -- Parthians -- 13. Horace, Odes 1.2.49-52, 1.19.9-12, 1.38.1-4, 2.13.13-20 -- 14. Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.177-228 -- 15. Lucan, Civil War 8.289-308, 8.371-388 -- 16. CIL XI 137 -- 17. Plutarch, Life of Crassus 24-28, 31 -- Chapter 11. Asia: Judea and the Jewish Diaspora -- 1. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 34/35.1.1-5 -- 2. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 40.3.1-8 -- 3. Cicero, On Behalf of Flaccus 67-69 -- 4. Philo of Alexandria, On Special Laws 1.1.2-3 -- 5. Philo of Alexandria, On the Virtues 134-141 -- 6. Philo of Alexandria, Apology for the Jews -- 7. Philo of Alexandria, Against Flaccus 53-57 -- 8. Strabo, Geography 16.2.35-37 -- 9. Horace, Satires 1.4.138-143 -- 10. Petronius, Carmina 50 -- 11. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.213-217, 14.223-227 -- 12. Tacitus, Histories 5.1-5, 5.8 -- 13. Juvenal, Satires 3.10-21 -- 14. Juvenal, Satires 6.542-547 -- 15. Juvenal, Satires 8.155-162 -- 16. Juvenal, Satires 14.96-106 -- 17. Martial, Epigrams 11.94 -- 18. Plutarch, On Superstition 169c8-10.

19. Plutarch, Dinner Conversations 669f-670a, 670d-f, 671c-672c -- Chapter 12. Asia: Arabia -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 3.107-113 -- 2. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 2.49-54 -- 3. Strabo, Geography 16.4.22, 16.4.25-27 -- 4. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 3.75, 3.81-84 -- 5. Babrius, Fables 57 -- Chapter 13. Asia: India, China, and the Edges of the World -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 3.98-105 -- 2. Ctesias, Indica Fragment 1 excerpted -- 3. Arrian, Indica 1-17 excerpted -- 4. Strabo, Geography 15.1.57-60, 15.1.62-67, 15.1.69-71 -- 5. Pomponius Mela, Description of the World 3.62-65 -- 6. Pliny, Natural History 20.54-55, 24.84-91 -- 7. Plutarch, Life of Alexander 60, 62-65 -- 8. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 2.18 -- 9. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.6-9 -- 10. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 3.20 -- Chapter 14. Europe: The Black Sea Region -- 1. Herodotus, Histories 1.215-216 -- 2. Herodotus, Histories 4.2-3, 4.5-12, 4.17-27, 4.46, 4.59-76, 4.78-80, 4.93-96, 4.102-107 -- 3. Herodotus, Histories 4.110-117 -- 4. Herodotus, Histories 5.3-9 -- 5. Euripides, Medea 1-8, 29-35, 223, 253-258, 534-541, 1323-1343 -- 6. Euripides, Iphigenia among the Taurians 28-41, 179-185, 392-421, 1153-1175 -- 7. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.96-97 -- 8. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.27, 7.29 excerpted -- 9. Apollonius, Argonautica 2.317-406, 2.411-418, 2.962-1029 -- 10. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 2.44-47 -- 11. Ovid, Heroides 12.7-10, 12.21-28, 12.101-112, 12.121-124 -- 12. Ovid, Tristia 5.7.1-24, 41-68 -- 13. Seneca, Medea 42-54, 116-134, 203-216, 301-379, 397-414, 483-489, 670-739 -- 14. Pliny, Natural History 4.89-91 -- Chapter 15. Europe: Gaul, Germany,and Britain -- 1. Polybius, The Histories 2.17.3-12 -- 2. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History 5.27-32.

3. Caesar, Bellum Gallicum 1.1.

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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