Unwritten RomeUniversity of Exeter Press, 2008 - 366 sayfa In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn't write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic. But some possibly authentic evidence may survive, if we can only tease it out - like the old story of a Roman king acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such ma |
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... Italian [ Sibyl ] . It was her lot to spend her life in the wilderness of Italy ; her son was Evander , who founded the cult - place of Pan in Rome , which is called Luperkon . Eratosthenes wrote about her . Clement of Alexandria , who ...
... Italian [ Sibyl ] . It was her lot to spend her life in the wilderness of Italy ; her son was Evander , who founded the cult - place of Pan in Rome , which is called Luperkon . Eratosthenes wrote about her . Clement of Alexandria , who ...
Sayfa 56
... Italy ' , as Livy puts it.27 So Eratosthenes ' item on the Italian Sibyl and the Roman cult of Pan belongs to a quite early stratum of Roman legend . But how early ? Evander was an Arcadian from Pallantion , from which was named ...
... Italy ' , as Livy puts it.27 So Eratosthenes ' item on the Italian Sibyl and the Roman cult of Pan belongs to a quite early stratum of Roman legend . But how early ? Evander was an Arcadian from Pallantion , from which was named ...
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... Italy in a ruthless police action . " The fluctuations of ideological attitude , of which the ' Bacchanalia affair ' was a particularly violent example , make it pointless to attempt a synchronic account of Liber in the Roman Republic ...
... Italy in a ruthless police action . " The fluctuations of ideological attitude , of which the ' Bacchanalia affair ' was a particularly violent example , make it pointless to attempt a synchronic account of Liber in the Roman Republic ...
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