Unwritten Rome

Name: Unwritten Rome
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ISBN: 9780859898232

ISBN-10: 0859898237

ISBN-13: 9780859898232

Edition: 2008

Authors: T. P. Wiseman

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How do you understand a society that didn't write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic. But some authentic evidence may survive, if we can only tease it out-like the old story of a Roman king acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of eighteen exercises in finding such material and making sense of it. Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $69.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication date: 11/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.42" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements



Unwritten Rome



What Can Livy Tell Us?



Fauns, Prophets and Ennius' Annales



The God of the Lupercal



Liber: Myth, Drama and Ideology in Republican Rome



The Kalends of April



Summoning Jupiter: Magic in the Roman Republic



Origines ludorum



The Games of Flora



The Games of Hercules



Praetextae, Togatae and Other Unhelpful Categories



Octavia and the Phantom Genre



Ovid and the Stage



The Prehistory of Roman Historiography



History, Poetry and Annales



The House of Tarquin



The Legend of Lucius Brutus



Roman Republic, Year One


Bibliography


Illustration credits


Index of passages


General index