{"product_id":"myth-and-history-in-the-historiography-of-early-rome-9789004534490","title":"Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210860192087,"sku":"9789004534490","price":112.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/myth-and-history-in-the-historiography-of-early-rome-9789004534490","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}