Historiography and imagination : eight essays on Roman culture
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Historiography and imagination : eight essays on Roman culture
（Exeter studies in history, no. 33）
University of Exeter Press, 1994
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How did the Romans make sense of their own past? And how can we make sense of it, when the evidence for early Rome and the Republic is so inadequate? In this volume, Professor Wiseman focuses on some of the more unfamiliar aspects of the Roman experience, where the historian needs not just knowledge but imagination too. The first essay in the book, the 1993 Ronald Syme Lecture 'The Origins of Historiography', argues that dramatic performances at the public games were the medium through which the Romans in the 'pre-literary' period made sense of their own past. All Latin and Greek source material is translated.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Origins of Roman Historiography
2. Roman Legend and Oral Tradition
3. Monuments and the Roman Annalists
4. Lucretius, Catiline and the Survival of Prophecy
5. Satyrs in Rome?
6. The Necessary Lesson
7. Who Was Crassicius Pansa?
8. Conspicui postes tectaque digna deo
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Notes
Index
Illustrations
Figure i. Acroterion from Forum Bovarium temple
Figure ii. The Ficoroni Cista, 15
Figure iii. Roman didrachm showing Victoria
Figure iv. Antefix from temple of Castor
Figure v. Bronze mirror from Bolsena
Figure vi. Antefix from Satricum temple
Figure vii. The Palatine and its neighbourhood
Figure viii. The Augustan complex on the Palatine
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