Myth and history in the historiography of early Rome / edited by Tim Cornell, Nicolas Meunier, Daniele Miano.

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Book
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English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
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xi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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"The histories of early Rome written in antiquity by the likes of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus include many sensational stories, from the she-wolf suckling the twins to the miraculous conception of Servius Tullius and the epiphany of the Dioscuri at Lake Regillus. Even the more sober parts of the narrative are of dubious historicity, and certainly include a good deal of rhetorical invention, aetiologies and folktales. The essays composing this volume attempt to analyse these stories to explore the porous boundaries and the hybrid borrowings between myth, history and historiography, and the limits of historical knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Committed to retain indefinite until ended by the majority of agreeing parties — Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation Shared Book Collection - Book Plan for Brill Monographs (NjP)
Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on contributors
  • Introduction: The historiography of myth in historiography / Daniele Miano
  • The epiphanies of the Dioscuri: myth or history? / Amber Gartrell
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Theopompus, and the historical marvel: the rhetoric of myth and the myth of rhetoric / Daniele Miano
  • Augustan historiography on the mythical aborigines: ideology and erudition in Dionysius, Trogus, and Timagenes / Edoardo Bianchi
  • The methodology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Book 1 of the Roman Antiquities / Tim Cornell
  • Privatus or tribunus celerum? the myth of Lucius Brutus and the political role of private individuals / Roman M. Frolov
  • Political violence between myth and history: the examples of Accius and Cicero / Chantal Gabrielli
  • The Decemvirate and the Second Secession of the Plebs (451-449 BCE): a historiographical fabula / Nicolas L.J. Meunier
  • Men, gods and places in early Rome: myths in history in the first century BCE / Marine Miquel
  • The precise dating of events in Dionysius' Narrative of Rome's kings / Stephen P. Oakley
  • Sculpting history into myth: Tarpeia and foreign conquest / Jaclyn Neel
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 9789004534490 (hardcover)
  • 9004534490 (hardcover)
LCCN
2022050776
OCLC
1350095332
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