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基本説明
In this sequel to Historiography and Imagination, Professor Wiseman explores the question of how the Romans understood their own past and the role of early drama in generating and transmitting legends.
Full Description
In this sequel to Historiography And Imagination (UEP 1994), Professor Wiseman explores the question of how the Romans understood their own past and the role of early drama in generating and transmitting legends. The first six of the book's twelve essays are concerned with stories and scenarios in the surviving literature which are best explained as having been first created for the stage. The other essays discuss the family traditions of Roman aristocrats, the rites of spring enjoyed by the Roman plebs, the use of Roman history in the radical politics of the nineteenth century, and how a great modern Roman historian exploited the novelist's art. The book is designed to be accessible to anyone with an interest in the ancient world, and all Latin and Greek is translated.
Contents
The history of a hypothesis
Tales unworthy of the Gods
Ovid on Servius Tullius
Two plays for the Liberalia
The tragedy of Gaius Gracchus
Crossing the Rubicon
The poet, the "plebs", and the chorus girls
Valerius Antias and the Palimpsest of history
The Minucii and their monument
Rome and the resplendent Aemilii
E.S. Beesly and the Roman revolution
Late Syme - a study in historiography
Appendices: Hermann Reich, "on the sources of early Roman history and Roman national tragedy"
The ludi saeculares