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.

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Abbreviations





General Introduction


 1 Ethnonyms and Ethnicity: Some Methodological Reflections


 2 Ethnonyms: Identifying the Sources


 3 Listing Ethnonyms alongside Other Cognitive Processes and Literary Strategies





Part 1: Listing and Declaiming Ethnonyms


Introduction


 1 Listing in Late Antiquity


 2 Aesthetics of Listing – the Example of Decimus Magnus Ausonius





1 The Laterculus Veronensis


 1 The Forgotten Attachment: The Ethnic Catalogues


 2 The Gentes of the Far North and West


 3 The Gentes of the Rhine


 4 The Gentes of the Danube


 5 The Non-European Gentes


 6 Conclusions: Lexical Adaptations and Ethnic Transformations in Late Antique Gaul





Part 2: Listing and Memorizing Ethnonyms


Introduction


 1 Lists for Learning


 2 Listing Ethnonyms in Schoolbooks – Vibius Sequester and Lucius Ampelius





2 The Cosmographia of Julius Honorius


 1 From a Student, for Future Students


 2 Gentes of the Eastern Quarter


 3 Gentes of the Western Quarter


 4 Gentes of the Northern Quarter


 5 Gentes of the Southern Quarter


 6 Conclusions: The Educational Value and Political Overtones of Lists of Place Names and Ethnonyms





Part 3: Listing and Locating Ethnonyms


Introduction


 1 Conceptualizing and Listing Space


 2 And yet it moves. Beyond Lists in Late Antique Geography





3 The Expositio totius mundi et gentium


 1 A Curious Author and a Peculiar Guidebook of the Roman World


 2 A (Partially) Utopian and (Very Much) Ethnic East


 3 A (Mostly) Civic terra Romanorum and the gentes barbarorum at Its Borders


 4 Ethnic and Spatial Identities in the Expositio





4 The Tabula Peutingeriana and Its Ethnonyms


 1 Introduction


 2 The Ethnonyms on the Tabula Peutingeriana: General Aspects


 3 Beyond the Rhine: Really a Medieval Addition?


 4 Ethnic Double Names


 5 A (Relatively) Unimaginative Ethnic Landscape


 6 Persae: Explicit and Implicit Traces of a Special Ethnonym


 7 Conclusions: Ethnonyms and a Geography of Otherness


General Conclusions


Bibliography


Index