Marking the North. The Greek Tradition and Its Influence in the Roman Period

This edited volume, based on an international workshop organised in 2022 at the Finnish Institute at Athens, explores the variety of ways in which the Greeks – and in their footsteps, the Romans – ‘marked’ the North and its peoples, rendering them intelligible, distinct, and bounded. Particular attention is given to how the ethnographical tradition operated through knowledge-creation processes, topoi, and established stereotypical beliefs and commonplace imagery. What emerges is the outline of a tradition of ‘writing the North into being’.