Myth, History And Culture In Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

Braund, David (editor); Gill, Christopher (editor)

ISBN 10: 0859896625 / ISBN 13: 9780859896627

Published by University of Exeter Press, 2003

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University of Exeter Press, 2003. 1st edition hardback with dustjacket. 358pp. Slight creasing to dustjacket, sticker to rear of jacket. Clean pages. Very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Myth, History And Culture In Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859896625
• ISBN 13: 9780859896627
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: 0
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

David Braund is Professor of Ancient History, and head of the Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Exeter. His particular specialism lies in the Black Sea region, especially Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and he speaks Russian and Georgian fluently.

Christopher Gill is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. His books include 'Form and Argument in Late Plato' (OUP, 1996) and a translation of 'Plato, Symposium' (Penguin, 1999).