Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome

Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

Av David Braund, Christopher Gill

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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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Utgivningsdatum: 2003-01-03
Mått: 165 x 240 x undefined mm
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 352
Förlag: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780859896627

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Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter. His books include Form and Argument in Late Plato (OUP, 1996) and a translation of Plato, Symposium (Penguin, 1999). David Braund is Professor of Ancient History, and head of the Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Exeter. His particular specialism lies in the Black Sea region, especially Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and he speaks Russian and Georgian fluently. His books include The Administration of the Roman Empire (Exeter, 1988); Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Transcaucasian Georgia, 550 BC-AD 562 (Oxford, 1994); Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Caesar to Agricola (Routledge, 1996).

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An all-star team has gathered to pay tribute to the work of Peter Wiseman in this impressive collection of papers… the various contributions come together for a result that is much like Wiseman’s scholarship: a blend of historiography, literature and thought practised in excellent fashion which does much to advance our knowledge of Roman culture… In sum, these papers are a fitting tribute to Peter Wiseman’s work. Many of the authors have interacted directly with his scholarship, some in opposition to well known theories. Yet even those who have not done so owe a clear debt to the dedicatee, for they all support and attempt to emulate the kind of interdisciplinarity which marks Wiseman’s publications. This should not be taken for granted. There was far greater specialization and patrolling of the disciplinary boundaries at the commencement of Wiseman’s academic career. Points were at times scored rather easily against (say) a historian who strayed leaden-footed into the world of literature, or into the world of a particular writer, and failed to appreciate the nuances of extract lifted clumsily out of context. It needed scholars of Wiseman’s learning and personality to break this mould and inspire others to emulate them. There can be little doubt that he is a pioneer and that the study of Roman culture is much the better for his example and leadership. In fact, we have to think in broad holistic terms of ‘culture’ when we read him.

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