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This volume provides students with an introduction to a range of important problems in the study of ancient Rome during the Regal and Republican periods in one accessible collection, bringing together a diverse range of influential papers.
List of contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: Andrea Carandini: The Myth of Romulus and the Origins of Rome
- 2: Michel Humm: Numa and Pythagoras: The Life and Death of a Myth
- 3: Fausto Zevi: Demaratus and the 'Corinthian' Kings of Rome
- 4: Ronald T. Ridley: The Enigma of Servius Tullius
- 5: T. P. Wiseman: The Legend of Lucius Brutus
- 6: Jan N. Bremmer: Three Roman Aetiological Myths
- 7: Ettore Pais: The Fabii at the River Cremera and the Spartans at Thermopylae
- 8: Emilio Gabba: Studies in Dionysius of Halicarnassus III: The Agrarian Bill of Spurius Cassius
- 9: Michael H. Crawford: The Roman History of Roman Colonisation
- 10: T. J. Cornell: The Lex Ouinia and the Emancipation of the Senate
- 11: J.-C. Richard: Qualis pater, talis filius?
- 12: Elizabeth Rawson: Cicero the Historian and Cicero the Antiquarian
- 13: Harriet I. Flower: The Tradition of the Spolia Opima: M. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
About the author
James H. Richardson is Lecturer in Classics at Massey University. He is the author of The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome and various articles on Roman history.
Federico Santangelo is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is a graduate of the University of Bologna and University College London. He has published on various aspects of Roman Republican history and is the author of Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007) and Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2013).
Summary
The study of Regal and Republican Rome presents a difficult and yet exciting challenge. The extant evidence, which for the most part is literary, is late, sparse, and difficult, and the value of it has long been a subject of intense and sometimes heated scholarly discussion. This volume provides students with an introduction to a range of important problems in the study of ancient Rome during the Regal and Republican periods in one accessible collection, bringing together a diverse range of influential papers. Of particular importance is the question of the value of the historiographical evidence (i.e. what the Romans themselves wrote about their past). By juxtaposing different and sometimes incompatible reactions to the evidence, the collection aims to challenge its readers and invite them to join the debate, and to assess the ancient evidence and modern interpretations of it for themselves.
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the editors have done us a service in assembling and editing this collection, and I should recommend it to those wishing to familiarise or refamiliarise themselves with past and present trends and problems in the study of early Rome.
