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This dissertation examines a way of reading Homer in antiquity that I call Homeric supplementation, which involved the imagination of motives, events, places, and circumstances that had been left out of Homer's text. My purpose is to demonstrate the prevalence of this creative f…

This is a study of Strabo's conception of the Greeks as an ethnographic subject and the interplay between his ethnographic representation and Greek literary traditions, authorial self-construction and private and communal memory. Six chapters comprise this study. Each of the fir…