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List of contents
Erich S. Gruen: Introduction
Stephanie Dalley: Semiramis in History and Legend: a Case Study in Interpretation of an Assyrian Historical Tradition, with Observations on Archetypes in Ancient Historiography, on Euhemerism before Euhemerus, and on the So-called Greek Ethnographic Style
Ronald Hendel: Genesis 1 11 and Its Mesopotamian Problem
Jan Assmann: Periergia: Egyptian Reactions to Greek Curiosity
Hans-Joachim Gehrke: Heroen als Grenzgänger zwischen Griechen und Barbaren
M. C. Miller: Barbarian Lineage in Classical Greek Mythology and Art: Pelops, Danaos and Kadmos
Erich S. Gruen: Persia Through the Jewish Looking-Glass
Josef Wiesehöfer: Rom as Enemy of Iran
Andrew Erskine: Unity and Identity: Shaping the Past in the Greek Mediterranean
Ann Kuttner: Do you look like you belong here? : Asianism at Pergamon and the Makedonian Diaspora
Gideon Bohak: Ethnic Portraits in Greco-Roman Literature
Irad Malkin: Herakles and Melqart: Greeks and Phoenicians in the Middle Ground
Jonathan M. Hall: Arcades his oris: Greek projections on the Italian Ethnoscape?
Michael Sommer: Palmyra and Hatra: Civic and Tribal Institutions at the Near Eastern Steppe Frontier
Fergus Millar: The Theodosian Empire (408 450) and the Arabs: Saracens or Ishmaelites?
