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In this dissertation, I discuss three interrelated issues: Greek, ethnographic writing in the period known as the Second Sophistic, the use of an archaizing past in this writing, and the way in which early Imperial, Greek speaking intellectuals deployed ethnographic ideas in the…

Scholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists to describe the dynamics of ancient civilizations beyond th…

In this dissertation, I explore the 2nd century C.E. reality through the writings of Lucian of Samosata, a native Syrian who wrote in Greek and was a Roman citizen. Lucian wrote a large volume of works that cannot be filed under one specific genre, including Satires, admonitory …