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Unwritten Rome
T. P. Wiseman
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Description for Unwritten Rome
Paperback. Presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome - as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such material and make sense of it. Num Pages: 376 pages, 54 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 690.
In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome—as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn’t write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around ... Read more
In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome—as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn’t write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898232
SKU
V9780859898232
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About T. P. Wiseman
T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman ... Read more
Reviews for Unwritten Rome
This 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 2009.06.11 Wiseman’s great skill, fully on display here, is his ability to use both literary and material evidence to create, with enviable erudition and imagination, ... Read more