Remus : a Roman myth
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Remus : a Roman myth
Cambridge University Press, 1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical explanation for its origin and development. His conclusions offer important new insights, both into the history and ideology of pre-imperial Rome and into the methods and motives of myth-creation in a non-literate society. In the richly unfamiliar Rome of Pan, Hermes and Circe the witch-goddess, where a general grows miraculous horns and prophets demand human sacrifice, Remus stands for the unequal struggle of the many against the powerful few.
Table of Contents
- 1. A too familiar story
- 2. Multiform and manifold
- 3. When and where
- 4. What the Greeks said
- 5. Italian evidence
- 6. The Lupercalia
- 7. The arguments
- 8. The life and death of Remus
- 9. The uses of a myth
- 10. The other Rome
- Appendix: Versions of the foundation of Rome.
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