Myth, History And Culture In Republican Rome
Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
336 pages
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18 photos and 6 line drawings
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9-1/2 x 6-3/10
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© 2003
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
Introduction: David Braund and Christopher Gill
Chapter 1 Becoming Historical – the Roman Case. Nicholas Purcell (St John’s College, Oxford)
Chapter 2 Remoria (in English translation). Filippo Coarelli (University of Perugia)
Chapter 3 Land and People in Republican Italy. Michael Crawford (University College, London)
Chapter 4 Coriolanus: Myth, History and Performance. Tim Cornell (University of Manchester)
Chapter 5 Pacuvius: Melodrama, Reversals and Recognition. Elaine Fantham (Princeton University)
Chapter 6 Plato with Pillows: Cicero on the Uses of Greek Culture. James Zetzel (Columbia University)
Chapter 7 Ancestral Virtues and Vices: Cicero on Nature, Nurture and Presentation. Susan Treggiari (Stanford University)
Chapter 8 Catullus – in and about Bithynia : Poems 68, 10, 28 and 47. Francis Cairns (The Florida State University)
Chapter 9 Poems to Historians: Catullus 1 and Horace Odes 2.1. A.J. Woodman (University of Durham)
Chapter 10 The Frescoes of the Great Hall of the Villa at Boscoreale: Iconography and Politics. Mario Torelli (University of Perugia)
Chapter 11 Cleopatra in Rome: Facts and Fantasies. Erich Gruen (University of California, Berkeley)
Chapter 12 Greek and Roman Drama and the Aeneid. Karl Galinsky (University of Texas, Austin)
Chapter 13 Agamemnon at Rome: Roman Dynasts and Greek Heroes. Edward Champlin (Princeton University)
Elaine Fantham: 'An Appreciation of T.P. Wiseman'
T.P. Wiseman: 'Autobiographical sketch'
Bibliography of T.P.Wiseman
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