The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe

by Peter S. Wells

Book Overview

The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691089787
• ISBN13: 9780691089782
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"