Remus : a Roman myth

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Remus : a Roman myth

T.P. Wiseman

Cambridge University Press, 1995

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • 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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