Myth, history and culture in republican Rome : studies in honour of T.P. Wiseman / edited by David Braund & Christopher Gill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braund, David, 1957-

Gill, Christopher, 1946-

Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter).

Wiseman, T. P.

Latin literature--Congresses.

Latin literature.

History.

Rome--Civilization--Congresses.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Civilization.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 358 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2003.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Becoming Historical: The Roman Case / Nicholas Purcell 12

2 Remoria / Filippo Coarelli 41

3 Land and People in Republican Italy / Michael Crawford 56

4 Coriolanus: Myth, History and Performance / Tim Cornell 73

5 Pacuvius: Melodrama, Reversals and Recognitions / Elaine Fantham 98

6 Plato with Pillows: Cicero on the Uses of Greek Culture / James Zetzel 119

7 Ancestral Virtues and Vices: Cicero on Nature, Nurture and Presentation / Susan Treggiari 139

8 Catullus in and about Bithynia: Poems 68, 10, 28 and 47 / Francis Cairns 165

9 Poems to Historians: Catullus 1 and Horace Odes 2.1 / A.J. Woodman 191

10 The Frescoes of the Great Hall of the Villa at Boscoreale: Iconography and Politics / Mario Torelli 217

11 Cleopatra in Rome: Facts and Fantasies / Erich Gruen 257

12 Greek and Roman Drama and the Aeneid / Karl Galinsky 275

13 Agamemnon at Rome: Roman Dynasts and Greek Heroes / Edward Champlin 295

An Appreciation of T.P. Wiseman / Elaine Fantham 320.

Notes:

"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'"-- p. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0859896625

OCLC:

51743398