Clio's Cosmetics : Three studies in Greco-Roman Literature

by: Wiseman, T.P.

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Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history during the first century BCE, when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much as her own, literary world. Historians, trained in the schools of rhetoric, prized elegant plausibility above the empirical objectivity we expect of them today. Legend and history intermingled; history and poetry overlapped.This study divides into three distinct parts. The first treats the problems that arise from reading first century history as if it were written by modern, non-rhetorical standards. The second examines the pseudo-history of the gens Claudia, fabricated during the first century and transmitted to us by Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The third discusses Catullus' dedication of his poetry to the historian Cornelius Nepos against the background of the two authors' common intellectual heritage. The book represents a significant contribution towards an appreciation of ancient historiography and Roman culture. History is viewed here as rhetoric, as myth-making, and as poetry.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Italia, Fascicolo LVII. Fiesole, Collezione Constantini, Fascicolo I & Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Italia, Fascicolo LVIII. Fiesole, Collezione Constantini, Fascicolo II

by: Paribeni, E. Camporeale, G. Saladino, V.

• Multigrafica Editrice, Roma, 1980

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Clio's Cosmetics : Three studies in Greco-Roman Literature

by: Wiseman, T.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780847662067 / 978-0-8476-6206-7
• ISBN-03: 0847662063 / 0-8476-6206-3
• Leicester University Press, , 1979

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Recueil des inscriptons grecques et latines (non funeraires) d'Alexandrie imperiale (Ier-IIIe c. apr. J.-C.)

by: Kayser, F.

• ISBN-13: 9782724701456 / 978-2-7247-0145-6
• ISBN-03: 2724701453 / 2-7247-0145-3
• Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale du Caire, Le Caire, 1994

The Aryballos as an Example : The Corinthian Aryballos as a mirror of the artistic connections between East and West in the 8th to the 6th centuries BC - an artistic analysis

by: Dvir, A.

• ISBN-13: 9781407308982 / 978-1-4073-0898-2
• ISBN-03: 140730898X / 1-4073-0898-X
• Archaeopress, Oxford, 2011

The 'Orphic' gold tablets and Greek religion : further along the path

by: Edmonds, R.G.

• ISBN-13: 9780521518314
• ISBN-03: 0521518318
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011