Myth, history and culture in republican Rome : studies in honour of T.P. Wiseman
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Myth, history and culture in republican Rome : studies in honour of T.P. Wiseman
University of Exeter Press, 2003
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" ... based on a conference held at the University of Exeter in March 2000, 'Myth, history and performance: a celebration of the work of T.P. Wiseman'"--Pref
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Description
In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding 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.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 An appreciation of the work of T.P Wiseman, Elaine Fantham. Part 2 Land and people in republican Italy, Michael Crawford Le megalografie dell'oecus della villa di Boscoreale: programma iconografico e programma politico (in English translation), Mario Torelli Remoria (in English translation), Filippo Corelli Becoming historical - the Roman case, Nicholas Purcell
- Coriolanus - myth, history and performance, Tim Cornell The theatre of Pacuvius - melodrama and mythography, Elaine Fantham Agamemnon at Rome, Edward Champlin
- Catullus - in and about Bithynia, Francis Cairns Ancestral virtues and vices - Cicero on nature, nurture and presentation, Susan Treggiari Plato with pillows - Cicero on the uses of Greek culture, James Zetzel Cleopatra in Rome - facts and fantasies, Erich Gruen Greek and Roman drama and the Aeneid, Karl Galinsky Celebrare Clio - poets and historians, Tony Woodman Autobiographical note, T.P. Wiseman Bibliography of T.P. Wiseman to date of publication
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