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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome
• Subtitle: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman
• Author: Emma Gee, Christopher Gill, David Braund
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780859896627
• ISBN: 0859896625
• ID: 04743752
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Weight: 839 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 165 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2003

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