The Roman Historical Tradition Regal and Republican Rome [Hardcover]

The study of Regal and Republican Rome presents a difficult and yet exciting challenge. The extant evidence, which for the most part is literary, is late, sparse, and difficult, and the value of it has long been a subject of intense and sometimes heated scholarly discussion. This volume provides students with an introduction to a range of important problems in the study of ancient Rome during the Regal and Republican periods in one accessible collection, bringing together a diverse range of influential papers. Of particular importance is the question of the value of the historiographical evidence (i.e. what the Romans themselves wrote about their past). By juxtaposing different and sometimes incompatible reactions to the evidence, the collection aims to challenge its readers and invite them to join the debate, and to assess the ancient evidence and modern interpretations of it for themselves.

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Introduction,James H. Richardson and Federico Santangelo
1. The Myth of Romulus and the Origins of Rome,Andrea Carandini
2. Numa and Pythagoras: The Life and Death of a Myth,Michel Humm
3. Demaratus and the 'Corinthian' Kings of Rome,Fausto Zevi
4. The Enigma of Servius Tullius,Ronald T. Ridley
5. The Legend of Lucius Brutus,T. P. Wiseman
6. Three Roman Aetiological Myths,Jan N. Bremmer
7. The Fabii at the River Cremera and the Spartans at Thermopylae,Ettore Pais
8. Studies in Dionysius of Halicarnassus III: The Agrarian Bill of Spurius Cassius,Emilio Gabba
9. The Roman History of Roman Colonisation,Michael H. Crawford
10. The Lex Ouinia and the Emancipation of the Senate,T. J. Cornell
11. Qualis pater, talis filius?,J.-C. Richard
12. Cicero the Historian and Cicero the Antiquarian,Elizabeth Rawson
13. The Tradition of the Spolia Opima: M. Claudius Marcellus and Augustus,Harriet I. Flower