title: The Encyclopedia of Mythology: Gods, Heroes, and Legends of the Greeks and Romans
author: Eric Flaum
description: Journalist Flaum has provided at a modest price comprehensive coverage of the major and minor legendary characters that appear in classical Greek and Latin literature. The work is richly illustrated by hundreds of beautiful reproductions of appropriate paintings and sculptures with classical themes. A standard concordance between Greek and Roman divinities is provided. The separate Roman entries are a bit idiosyncratic (Pomona is included, but not Vertumnus, and there are no entries on Faunus or Acca Laurentia) and not necessarily legendary (Vestal Virgins), but still useful and interesting. Though neither comprehensive nor exhaustive, this outstanding and attractive reference book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from students to amateurs of classics.<br /><i>- James S. Ruebel, Iowa State Univ., Ames</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Erich S. Gruen
  Ethnicity in the Ancient World—Did it Matter?
  
  Erich S. Gruen
  Ethnicity in the 
  Ancient World—
  Did it Matter?
  
  ISBN 978-3-11-068478-0
  e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-068565-7
  e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-068580-0
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2020941962
  Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
  The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; 
  detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.
  © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
  Cover image: Hercules mosaic, Hercules in drinking contest with Dionysus, House of Dionysus, 
  ruined city, Sepphoris, Israel
  Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck
  www.degruyter.com
  
   
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  Contents 
  Acknowledgments | IX 
  Abbreviations | XI 
  Introduction | 1 
  1 
  Were Barbarians Barbaric? | 11 
  2 
  Herodotus and Greekness | 42 
  3 
  The Racial Judgments of Polybius | 56 
  4 
  Rome’s Multiple Identities and Tangled Perspectives | 72 
  5 
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