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Book SynopsisThe histories of early Rome written in antiquity by the likes of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus include many sensational stories, from the she-wolf suckling the twins to the miraculous conception of Servius Tullius and the epiphany of the Dioscuri at Lake Regillus. Even the more sober parts of the narrative are of dubious historicity, and certainly include a good deal of rhetorical invention, aetiologies and folktales. The essays composing this volume attempt to analyse these stories to explore the porous boundaries and the hybrid borrowings between myth, history and historiography, and the limits of historical knowledge.
Table of ContentsContents Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen Acknowledgements Note on Contributors 1 Introduction: The Historiography of Myth in Historiography Daniele Miano 2 The Epiphanies of the Dioscuri: Myth or History? Amber Gartrell 3 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Theopompus, and the Historical Marvel: The Rhetoric of Myth and the Myth of Rhetoric Daniele Miano 4 Augustan Historiography on the Mythical Aborigines: Ideology and Erudition in Dionysius, Trogus, and Timagenes Edoardo Bianchi 5 The Methodology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Book 1 of the Roman Antiquities Tim Cornell 6 Privatus or tribunus celerum? The Myth of Lucius Brutus and the Political Role of Private Individuals Roman M. Frolov 7 Political Violence between Myth and History: The Examples of Accius and Cicero Chantal Gabrielli 8 The Decemvirate and the Second Secession of the Plebs (451–449 BCE): A Historiographical fabula Nicolas L.J. Meunier 9 Men, Gods and Places in Early Rome: Myths in History in the First Century BCE Marine Miquel 10 The Precise Dating of Events in Dionysius’ Narrative of Rome’s Kings Stephen P. Oakley 11 Sculpting History into Myth: Tarpeia and Foreign Conquest Jaclyn Neel Index
