Laudator Temporis Acti

Ramsay MacMullen (1928-2022), Roman Social Relations. 50 B.C. to A.D. 284 (1974; rpt. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976), p. 124, with note on pp. 202-203:

The hyphen in "Greco-Roman" civilization stands by abbreviation for many significant differences, within which still others set at odds "the dull Boeotians," "deceitful Carthaginians," "volatile Alexandrians," and so forth, each caricatured by jealous neighbors.³

3 Differences in manners and values between the Latin- and the Greek-speaking parts of our area of study appear above, chapter 3 note 69, and 4 notes 61, 68, 91, and 99. The prevalence of caricatures of nations and city-state populations can best be illustrated by passages dealing with Alexandrians and (usually meaning the same thing) Egyptians: Tac., Hist. 1.11; Plin., Paneg. 31.2; Dio Chrysos., Or. 32.1, 68, 77 and 86; Herodian 4.9.2; Dio 51.17.1; Expositio tot. mundi 37; etc.; and more generally E. Wölfflin in Archiv für Lat. Lexicographie 7 (1892) 135-146, 333-342.

The title of Eduard Wölfflin's article (which starts on p. 133, not on p. 135) is "Zur Psychologie der Völker des Altertums".

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