Talking To Virgil | A Miscellany

T.P. Wiseman

ISBN 10: 0859893758 / ISBN 13: 9780859893756

Published by University of Exeter Press, 1992

About this Item

1992, 242 pages | sound copy free of name, notes etc, shows light general wear, one spine crease | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Talking To Virgil | A Miscellany
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859893758
• ISBN 13: 9780859893756
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A unique collection that uncovers connections between a fascinating assortment of subjects with classical associations, ranging from Plato to Anthony Powell.

About the Author

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Political Life (1985), and Remembering the Roman People (2009). And on the study of Roman historiography, and from there to the myth-history of early Rome: see Clio’s Cosmetics (1979), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit, and Unwritten Rome (2008)