Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

by: Braund, D. Gill, Chr.

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In this collection of essays, an international team of scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman's past and present work. They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this generation. The contributions range over myth (Corialanus and Remus), the interplay between historiography, literature and myth-making (on Cleopatra, for instance), and art and story-telling at Boscoreale. They explore Roman drama (Pacuvius) and links between drama and Virgil's Aeneid; they discuss Catullus in Bithynia and Cicero on Greek and Roman culture. Professor Wiseman has been at the forefront of innovative research in Roman history, historiography, literature in context, drama and myth, for many years. His work is marked by the combination of a powerful historical imagination with an acute sense of the limitations of our knowledge and of the need to negotiate with the complexity of our sources. [

List of Figures
vii
Preface ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1 (11)
David Braund
Christopher Gill
Becoming Historical: The Roman Case
12 (29)
Nicholas Purcell
Remoria
41 (15)
Filippo Coarelli
Land and People in Republican Italy
56 (17)
Michael Crawford
Coriolanus: Myth, History and Performance
73 (25)
Tim Cornell
Pacuvius: Melodrama, Reversals and Recognitions
98 (21)
Elaine Fantham
Plato with Pillows: Cicero on the Uses of Greek Culture
119 (20)
James Zetzel
Ancestral Virtues and Vices: Cicero on Nature, Nurture and Presentation
139 (26)
Susan Treggiari
Catullus in and about Bithynia: Poems 68, 10, 28 and 47
165 (26)
Francis Cairns
Poems to Historians: Catullus 1 and Horace Odes 2.1
191 (26)
A.J. Woodman
The Frescoes of the Great Hall of the Villa at Boscoreale: Iconography and Politics
217 (40)
Mario Torelli
Cleopatra in Rome: Facts and Fantasies
257 (18)
Erich Gruen
Greek and Roman Drama and the Aeneid
275 (20)
Karl Galinsky
Agamemnon at Rome: Roman Dynasts and Greek Heroes
295 (25)
Edward Champlin
An Appreciation of T.P. Wiseman 320 (6)
Elaine Fantham
Autobiographical Note 326 (5)
T.P. Wiseman
Bibliography of T.P. Wiseman to 2002 331 (12)
Index of Ancient Passages 343 (10)
General Index 353

Subjects:
510-30 B.C
Civilization
Conference papers and proceedings
Cultuurgeschiedenis
Geschichte 510 v. Chr.-31
Geschichtsschreibung
History
Kongress
Kongress Exeter 2000
Kultur
Latin literature
Latin literature Congresses
Latin literature History and criticism
Littérature latine Congrès
Rome (Empire)
Rome Civilisation Congrès
Rome Civilization
Rome Civilization Congresses
Rome Histoire 510-30 av. J.-C. (République) Congrès
Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C
Rome History Republic, 510-30 B.C. Congresses
Romeinse oudheid
Römisches Reich
Wiseman, T. P

Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

by: Braund, D. Gill, Chr.

• ISBN-13: 9780859896627 / 978-0-85989-662-7
• ISBN-03: 0859896625 / 0-85989-662-5
• University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2003

Price: 85,00 EURO

1 copy in stock