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Date:
Tue, 29 Sep 1992
From:
"Daniel P. Tompkins"
Subject:
Celts & Romans
I'm
putting together a course proposal on racial attitudes and racial
formation in the ancient world. I've spent a good bit of time on the
Greek part, but am less up on the Roman material. I'd like to do a
bit on Roman attitudes to the Celts, and wonder if anyone can
recommend good readings on this. I'd also be interested in comments
folks might have on Lloyd Thompson, Romans and Blacks. Esp., for
instance, I'd like to know if anyone's seen good reviews in
non-classical journals (sociology, etc.). I'd be grateful for any
guidance. I'm finding this a wonderfully rich and stimulating
topic--there's a lot to do in this area.
Date:
Wed, 30 Sep 1992
From:
James EG Zetzel
Subject:
Re: Celts & Romans
I
don't know anything about Romans and Celts, but G.F.Franko, now
teaching at Randolph-Macon, completed his dissertation here last
year on the portrayal of Rome's enemies in Plautus, specifically
Carthaginians and Aetolians, and he had a good deal of material
about ethnic characterization. He's giving a paper at the APA on the
difference in meaning between *Poenus* and *Carthaginiensis*.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992
From:
Owen Cramer
Subject:
RE: Celts & Romans
The
attitude of Julius Caesar, B. G. 1.1 and 6.11ff., I remember came as
quite a surprise to me when I got to teaching Caesar some years
back: there seemed to me to be a subtext about parallels between
Roman and Gallic society, with no advantage to the Romans (a noble
savage theory: more texts in Lovejoy-Boas, _Primitivism and Related
Ideas_). Of course, also Tacitus' Agricola. Also, the Dying Gauls
group and how it got from Pergamum to Rome and what that means.
Date:
Wed, 30 Sep 1992
From: "William J. Dominik"
Subject: Re: Celts & Romans
Concerning
your enquiry about material on Romans attitudes toward blacks, etc.
Lloyed Thompson is very approachable. He was going to attend the
Roman Studies Conference held here in Natal, South Africa in July
but in the end was unable to attend. However, he has contributed a
paper entitled `Roman Perceptions of Blacks' which will appear in
Scholia ns vol. 2 (a South African Classics journal) late next year.
You do know that he published the award-winning text `Romans and
Blacks'.
Date:
Wed, 30 Sep 1992
From:
Don Lateiner
Subject:
Re: Celts & Romans
Not
alot to offer right here. Gerhard Herm has a book on the Celts that
might offer more from that side. Sherwin-White, Racial Prejudice in
the Roman Empire, has a section on the Celts. R. Syme, Colonial
Elites, has a section on the Romans in Spain that might be
illuminating. Does Holland have a book on Cisalpine Gaul? I know
there is much more out there, including two books recently on the
Romans in Gaul, but I can't recall the titles.
Date:
Thu, 1 Oct 1992
From:
David Meadows
Subject:
Re: Celts & Romans
As
G. Herm's book, `The Celts' has already been mentioned, it might be
worth- while to note that it is written, it seems, for a popular
audience and as such, is utterly devoid of notes and references,
which can be annoying. Another useful work, which I don't think has
been mentioned (unless it happened during an accidental mass delete
I performed), is the old stand by, J.P.V.D. Balsdon `Romans and
Aliens'. Although it has precious little to say specifically about
the Celts, other groups are dealt with and it has useful notes and
bibliographies. Fergus Millar, `The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours'
(hurrah for the Queen's English), also has some useful stuff, but
you have to hunt for it.
Date:
Fri, 2 Oct 1992
From:
Mark Riley
Subject:
Re: Celts & Romans
A
Momigliano "Alien Wisdom" has some passages on the Grrek
and Roman interest in the Celts. |
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