Philip Freeman

Ireland and the Classical World (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Intriguing... This volume explores the evidence regarding Greek and (mostly) Roman knowledge of Ireland during the classical period." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review On the boundary of what the ancient Greeks and Romans considered the habitable world, Ireland was a land of myth and mystery in classical times. Classical authors frequently portrayed its people as savages-even as cannibals and devotees of incest-and evinced occasional uncertainty as to the island's shape, size, and actual location. Unlike neighboring Britain, Ireland never knew Roman occupation, yet literary and archaeological evidence prove that Iuverna was more than simply terra incognita in classical antiquity. In this book, Philip Freeman explores the relations between ancient Ireland and the classical world through a comprehensive survey of all Greek and Latin literary sources that mention Ireland. He analyzes passages (given in both the original language and English) from over thirty authors, including Julius Caesar, Strabo, Tacitus, Ptolemy, and St. Jerome. To amplify the literary sources, he also briefly reviews the archaeological and linguistic evidence for contact between Ireland and the Mediterranean world. Freeman's analysis of all these sources reveals that Ireland was known to the Greeks and Romans for hundreds of years and that Mediterranean goods and even travelers found their way to Ireland, while the Irish at least occasionally visited, traded, and raided in Roman lands. Everyone interested in ancient Irish history or Classics, whether scholar or enthusiast, will learn much from this pioneering book. "A work of rigorous scholarship based on meticulous research, but the author's prose is as effortless as it is enthusiastic." - American Journal of Archaeology

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780292781887
• Artikelnr.: 63556074

Autorenporträt

Philip Freeman is Professor of Classics at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. Introduction
3. 1. The Archaeology of Roman Material in Ireland
* Pre-Roman Material
* First-Century Material
* Second-Century Material
* Third-Century Material
* Fourth- and Early-Fifth-Century Material
4. 2. Language: The Influence Of Latin In Pre-Patrician Ireland
* Latin Loan-Words in Early Irish
* The Ogam Alphabet and the Latin Grammatical Tradition
5. 3. Ancient Authors
6. Rufius Festus Avienus
* Sources for Ora maritima
7. The Hellenistic Geographers
8. Diodorus Siculus
9. Julius Caesar
10. Strabo
11. Isidorus
12. Pomponius Mela
13. Pliny the Elder
14. Pseudo-Aristotle
15. Tacitus
16. Juvenal
17. Dionysius Periegetes
18. Ptolemy
19. Apuleius
20. Herodian
21. Solinus
22. Unattributed Works
* Panegyric on Constantius Caesar
* Maritime Itinerary of Antonius Augustus
* Panegyric on Constantine Augustus
* Nomina provinciarum omnium
* Orphic Argonautica
23. Pacatus
24. Ammianus Marcellinus
25. Unattributed Work
* Historia Augusta
26. Pseudo-Hegesippus
27. Jerome
28. Prudentius
29. Symmachus
30. Servius
31. Claudian
32. Marcianus
33. Stobaeus
34. Orosius
35. Pseudo-Agathemerus
36. Stephanus of Byzantium
37. Appendix One: The Greek Alphabet
38. Appendix Two: Classical References to Ireland
39. Appendix Three: The Names of Ireland
40. References
41. Index