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Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Abbreviations 14 List of Contributors 16 Introduction 22 PART I: Constructing Images of the Impact and Identity of Barbarians 34 A. Literary Constructions of Barbarian Identity 36 1 Catalogues of Barbarians in Late Antiquity 38 2 Augustine and the Merciful Barbarians 54 3 Reguli in the Roman Empire, Late Antiquity, and the Early Medieval Germanic Kingdoms 64 4 Were the Sasanians Barbarians? Roman Writers on the “Empire of the Persians” 76 5 A Roman Image of the “Barbarian” Sasanians 88 B. Political and Religious Interpretations of Barbarian Activities 98 6 Banditry or Catastrophe?: History, Archaeology, and Barbarian Raids on Roman Greece 100 7 John Rufus, Timothy Aelurus, and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire 118 C. Imperial Manipulation of Perceptions of Barbarians 128 8 Imperial Religious Unification Policy and its Divisive Consequences 130 9 Hellenes, Barbarians, and Christians: Religion and Identity Politics in Diocletian’s Rome 142 10 Barbarians as Spectacle: The Account of an Ancient “Embedded Reporter” (Symm. Or. 2.10–12) 154 PART II: Cultural Interaction on the Roman/Barbarian Frontiers 164 A. Becoming Roman: Movements of People acr

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2019

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EN