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Unwritten Rome

In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic.
Print Book, English, 2008
Univ. of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2008
366 s. : illustrations
9780859898232, 9780859898225, 0859898237, 0859898229
1001626475
1. Unwritten Rome2. What Can Livy Tell Us?3. Fauns, Prophets and Ennius' Annales4. The God of the Lupercal5. Liber: Myth, Drama and Ideology in Republican Rome6. The Kalends of April7. Summoning Jupiter: Magic in the Roman Republic8. Origines ludorum9. The Games of Flora10. The Games of Hercules11. Praetextae, Togatae and Other Unhelpful Categories12. Octavia and the Phantom Genre13. Ovid and the Stage14. The Prehistory of Roman Historiography15. History, Poetry and Annales16. The House of Tarquin17. The Legend of Lucius Brutus18. Roman Republic, Year OneBibliographyIndex