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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewThis is an important book, and that scholars dealing with early Rome will have to grapple with its basic arguments, even if they don’t agree with them.
Gary D. Farney, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.06.11Wiseman’s great skill, fully on display here, is his ability to use both literary and material evidence to create, with enviable erudition and imagination, a plausible and engaging portrait. For the journey to unwritten Rome, this book is an inspiring and informative guide.
Michael Johnson, Classical JournalUnwritten Rome is a learned and beautifully written book.
Lee Fratantuono, The Historian, 73.3This book will be essential reading for every serious student of the history of Roman literature; it will be quite impossible to ignore it. As Wiseman cast brilliant light on Roman myth in his recent book [The Myths of Rome], here he does the same for the broader literary tradition. This is a feast of a book that you dive into and just keep going.
Barry B. Powell, University of Wisconsin-MadisonWiseman has a gift for combining different kinds of evidence, over which he has an unrivalled mastery, into new and provocative arguments. The book will be an indispensable companion to Wiseman’s much acclaimed The Myths of Rome.
Tim Cornell, University of Manchester... on y retrouve toutes les qualities du savant anglais : une érudition très solide, une indiscutable rigueur dans le raisonnement, une remarquable claret dans la présentation, une grande prudence critique, le tout n’excluant cependant pas un appel à l’imagination''les lecteurs qui ont apprécié The Myths of Rome, sans nécessairement en partager toutes les idées, prendront certainement un vif plaisir à lire la présente Unwritten Rome.
L’Antiquité Classique, 79Table of Contents
- 1. Unwritten Rome
- 2. What Can Livy Tell Us?
- 3. Fauns, Prophets and Ennius' Annales
- 4. The God of the Lupercal
- 5. Liber: Myth, Drama and Ideology in Republican Rome
- 6. The Kalends of April
- 7. Summoning Jupiter: Magic in the Roman Republic
- 8. Origines ludorum
- 9. The Games of Flora
- 10. The Games of Hercules
- 11. Praetextae, Togatae and Other Unhelpful Categories
- 12. Octavia and the Phantom Genre
- 13. Ovid and the Stage
- 14. The Prehistory of Roman Historiography
- 15. History, Poetry and Annales
- 16. The House of Tarquin
- 17. The Legend of Lucius Brutus
- 18. Roman Republic, Year One
- Bibliography
- Index
