Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine LiteratureAlthough Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C. E. a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which