The Barbarians

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By Peter Bogucki

Published Sept. 6, 2017

Ancient Greece and Rome, to our modern minds, are discrete places that influenced Western culture, but Peter Bogucki remind us that they were influenced in their own time by rural communities with remarkably different cultures. We have uncovered extensive archaeological evidence from them, discovering more about who they were and how they influenced the cultures around them.

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