This short account tries to show that the stereotype of the barbarians and an
anti-Eastern discourse was developed in the literate culture of the Greeks in classical
times, based on a genuine fear of the Persians, but also on an increasing smugness.
The attitude towards the East was handed down to the Romans and occasionally
exploited for…[Read more]

This outline of our knowledge of the process of releasing literature in late republican and
early imperial Rome addresses the nature of the recitations, the question of ‘publishing’
and distribution of books, from Atticus to Pliny the Younger. Although recognising that
the distribution of Roman literature to a large extent consisted of pri…[Read more]

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