Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The art of walking
- Chapter 2 Seneca on the mind in motion
- Chapter 3 Urban walkers on display
- Chapter 4 Cicero’s legs
- Chapter 5 Theoretical travels
- Chapter 6 Walking with Odysseus
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject index
- Index locorum
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The art of walking
- Chapter 2 Seneca on the mind in motion
- Chapter 3 Urban walkers on display
- Chapter 4 Cicero’s legs
- Chapter 5 Theoretical travels
- Chapter 6 Walking with Odysseus
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject index
- Index locorum
Summary
The geographer Strabo preserves an amusing anecdote about the interaction of Romans and “barbarians” on the Iberian peninsula in the first century bce. Although the Romans had formed a political alliance with the Vettonians, there was inevitably a certain degree of culture clash (Geog. 3.4.16):
τοὺς δὲ Οὐέττωντας, ὅτε πρῶτον εἰς τὸ τῶν Ῥωμαίων παρῆλθον στρατόπεδον, ἰδόντας τῶν ταξιαρχῶν τινας ἀνακάμπτοντας ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς περιπάτου χάριν, μανίαν ὑπολαβόντας, ἡγεῖσθαι τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ τὰς σκηνάς, ὡς δέον ἢ μένειν καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἱδρυθέντας ἢ μάχεσθαι.
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- Walking in Roman Culture , pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011