Representations of the alien [sound recording] / [colloquium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Representations of the alien [sound recording] / [colloquium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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The portrait of the "barbarian" in Roman literature and art suffers from the application of tropes, ethnographic conventions, and dehumanizing distortions. Mere prejudice or simplistic "othering" fail to account for the complex representations of Gauls and Germans. The colloquium offers probing analyses of literary techniques and visual images, citing literary works (such as Caesar and Tacitus) and monuments (such as the Column of Marcus Aurelius).

1 sound disc (360 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + loose leaf schedule of events, abstracts of lectures, and brief biographies of participants.

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