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Historiography and Imagination

Eight Essays on Roman Culture

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

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Historiography and Imagination

Eight Essays on Roman Culture

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

This work focuses on some of the more unfamiliar aspects of the Roman experience, where the historian needs not just knowledge but also imagination. It expores how the Romans made sense of their past and how people today can understand that history, despite the inadequate evidence for early Rome and the Republic. All Latin and Greek source material is translated. The first essay in this collection was the Ronald Syme Lecture for 1993; "The Origins of Roman Historiography" argues that dramatic performances at the public games were the medium through which the Romans in the "pre-literary" period made sense of their own past.

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0859894223

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The Roman Audience

Classical Literature as Social History

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

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The Roman Audience

Classical Literature as Social History

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of Roman 'literature' to mass public audiences.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198718357

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Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are explored by Professor Wiseman with new and startling results. Contemporary high society and politics are illustrated through Clodia and Caelius Rufus, considered not as mere adjuncts to Catullus' story but as significant historical personalities in their own right. A final chapter on nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Catullus' world shows how anachronistic preconceptions have prevented a proper understanding of it, and made this radical reappraisal necessary. Anyone with a serious interest in Latin literature or Roman history will want to read this book. Students in the upper levels of school or at university will find it essential background reading to their work on Catullus and Cicero's Pro Caelio.

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0521319684

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Eight Essays on Roman Culture

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Remus

A Roman Myth

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

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Remus

A Roman Myth

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical explanation for its origin and development. His conclusions offer important new insights, both into the history and ideology of pre-imperial Rome and into the methods and motives of myth-creation in a non-literate society. In the richly unfamiliar Rome of Pan, Hermes and Circe the witch-goddess, where a general grows miraculous horns and prophets demand human sacrifice, Remus stands for the unequal struggle of the many against the powerful few.

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Remus

A Roman Myth

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A Roman Myth

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A People of One Book

The Bible and the Victorians

By: Timothy Larsen

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A People of One Book

The Bible and the Victorians

By: Timothy Larsen

Although the Victorians were awash in texts, the Bible was such a pervasive and dominant presence that they may fittingly be thought of as 'a people of one book'. They habitually read the Bible, quoted it, adopted its phraseology as their own, thought in its categories, and viewed their own lives and experiences through a scriptural lens. This astonishingly deep, relentless, and resonant engagement with the Bible was true across the religious spectrum from Catholics to Unitarians and beyond. The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar. Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. Serving as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism, while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.

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OUP Oxford

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0191614335

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Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome

Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

By: David Braund,Christopher Gill,Timothy Peter Wiseman

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Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome

Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

By: David Braund,Christopher Gill,Timothy Peter Wiseman

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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0859896625

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Clio's Cosmetics

Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

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Clio's Cosmetics

Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history during the first century BCE, when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much as her own, literary world. Historians, trained in the schools of rhetoric, prized elegant plausibility above the empirical objectivity we expect of them today. Legend and history intermingled; history and poetry overlapped.This study divides into three distinct parts. The first treats the problems that arise from reading first century history as if it were written by modern, non-rhetorical standards. The second examines the pseudo-history of the gens Claudia, fabricated during the first century and transmitted to us by Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The third discusses Catullus' dedication of his poetry to the historian Cornelius Nepos against the background of the two authors' common intellectual heritage. The book represents a significant contribution towards an appreciation of ancient historiography and Roman culture. History is viewed here as rhetoric, as myth-making, and as poetry.

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Presses Université Laval

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190467500X

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The Roman Audience

Classical Literature as Social History

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

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Classical Literature as Social History

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

In an ambitious overview of 1000 years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T.P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilising wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Presenting the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, he draws some unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasises the significance of the annual series of 'stage games', and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama and dance.

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0191787647

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Remembering the Roman People

Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman

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Remembering the Roman People

Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

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A challenging reinterpretation of the political culture of the last century of the Roman Republic. T.P. Wiseman argues that the People had their own egalitarian ethos, usually in conflict with that of the self-styled 'best' (optimates), who, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the republic's breakdown in civil war.

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0191716839

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Catullus and His World

A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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A Reappraisal

By: Timothy Peter Wiseman,T. P. Wiseman

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Book's by Timothy Peter Wiseman

Historiography and Imagination

Historiography and Imagination

The Roman Audience

The Roman Audience

Catullus and His World

Catullus and His World

Historiography and Imagination

Historiography and Imagination

Remus

Remus

Remus

Remus

A People of One Book

A People of One Book

Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome

Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome

Clio's Cosmetics

Clio's Cosmetics

The Roman Audience

The Roman Audience

Remembering the Roman People

Remembering the Roman People

Catullus and His World

Catullus and His World

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