Old Names, New Peoples: Listing Ethnonyms in Late Antiquity

Salvatore Liccardo, Ph.D. (2019), University of Vienna, is a postdoctoral researcher and team member of the ERC Synergy Grant HistoGenes. His research covers processes of identity formation, ethnic terminology, and geographical knowledge in late antique and early medieval sources.

• PrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviationsGeneral Introduction1 Ethnonyms and Ethnicity: Some Methodological Reflections2 Ethnonyms: Identifying the Sources3 Listing Ethnonyms alongside Other Cognitive Processes and Literary StrategiesPart 1: Listing and Declaiming EthnonymsIntroduction1 Listing in Late Antiquity2 Aesthetics of Listing – the Example of Decimus Magnus Ausonius1 The Laterculus Veronensis1 The Forgotten Attachment: The Ethnic Catalogues2 The Gentes of the Far North and West3 The Gentes of the Rhine4 The Gentes of the Danube5 The Non-European Gentes6 Conclusions: Lexical Adaptations and Ethnic Transformations in Late Antique GaulPart 2: Listing and Memorizing EthnonymsIntroduction1 Lists for Learning2 Listing Ethnonyms in Schoolbooks – Vibius Sequester and Lucius Ampelius2 The Cosmographia of Julius Honorius1 From a Student, for Future Students2 Gentes of the Eastern Quarter3 Gentes of the Western Quarter4 Gentes of the Northern Quarter5 Gentes of the Southern Quarter6 Conclusions: The Educational Value and Political Overtones of Lists of Place Names and EthnonymsPart 3: Listing and Locating EthnonymsIntroduction1 Conceptualizing and Listing Space2 And yet it moves. Beyond Lists in Late Antique Geography3 The Expositio totius mundi et gentium1 A Curious Author and a Peculiar Guidebook of the Roman World2 A (Partially) Utopian and (Very Much) Ethnic East3 A (Mostly) Civic terra Romanorum and the gentes barbarorum at Its Borders4 Ethnic and Spatial Identities in the Expositio4 The Tabula Peutingeriana and Its Ethnonyms1 Introduction2 The Ethnonyms on the Tabula Peutingeriana: General Aspects3 Beyond the Rhine: Really a Medieval Addition?4 Ethnic Double Names5 A (Relatively) Unimaginative Ethnic Landscape6 Persae: Explicit and Implicit Traces of a Special Ethnonym7 Conclusions: Ethnonyms and a Geography of OthernessGeneral ConclusionsBibliographyIndex