This is a delightful and important book... The book is handsomely produced and bound. The editors have done a splendid job... It should, therefore, be read by any JACT member who genuinely cares about Roman studies. Another ideal gift.
<p><b>Joint Association of Classical Teachers, <i>(JACT)</i>, Issue 34</b></p>

(JACT), Issue 34

In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman's past and present work. They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this generation. The contributions range over myth (Corialanus and Remus), the interplay between historiography, literature and myth-making (on Cleopatra, for instance), and art and story-telling at Boscoreale. They explore Roman drama (Pacuvius) and links between drama and Virgil's Aeneid; they discuss Catullus in Bithynia and Cicero on Greek and Roman culture. Professor Wiseman has been at the forefront of innovative research in Roman history, historiography, literature in context, drama and myth, for many years. His work is marked by the combination of a powerful historical imagination with an acute sense of the limitations of our knowledge and of the need to negotiate with the complexity of our sources.
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In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman's past and present work. Professor Wiseman has been at the forefront of innovative research in Roman history, historiography, literature in context, drama and myth, for many years.
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  • Part 1
  • An appreciation of the work of T.P Wiseman, Elaine Fantham.
  • Part 2
  • Land and people in republican Italy, Michael Crawford
  • Le megalografie dell'oecus della villa di Boscoreale: programma iconografico e programma politico (in English translation), Mario Torelli
  • Remoria (in English translation), Filippo Corelli
  • Becoming historical - the Roman case, Nicholas Purcell; Coriolanus - myth, history and performance, Tim Cornell
  • The theatre of Pacuvius - melodrama and mythography, Elaine Fantham
  • Agamemnon at Rome, Edward Champlin; Catullus - in and about Bithynia, Francis Cairns
  • Ancestral virtues and vices - Cicero on nature, nurture and presentation, Susan Treggiari
  • Plato with pillows - Cicero on the uses of Greek culture, James Zetzel
  • Cleopatra in Rome - facts and fantasies, Erich Gruen
  • Greek and Roman drama and the Aeneid, Karl Galinsky
  • Celebrare Clio - poets and historians, Tony Woodman
  • Autobiographical note, T.P. Wiseman
  • Bibliography of T.P. Wiseman to date of publication
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List of Contributors David Braund (By (author)) Christopher Gill (By (author)) David Braund (Contributions by) Francis Cairns (Contributions by) Edward Champlin (Contributions by) Filippo Coarelli (Contributions by) Tim Cornell (Contributions by) Michael Crawford (Contributions by) Elaine Fantham (Contributions by) Karl Galinsky (Contributions by) Christopher Gill (Contributions by) Erich Gruen (Contributions by) Nicholas Purcell (Contributions by) Mario Torelli Torelli (Contributions by) Susan Treggiari (Contributions by) T.P. Wiseman (Contributions by) A.J. Woodman (Contributions by) James Zetzel (Contributions by)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780859896627
Publisert
2003-01-03
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Exeter Press
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter. His books include Form and Argument in Late Plato (OUP, 1996) and a translation of Plato, Symposium (Penguin, 1999). David Braund is Professor of Ancient History, and head of the Classics and Ancient History department at the University of Exeter. His particular specialism lies in the Black Sea region, especially Russia, Ukraine and Georgia, and he speaks Russian and Georgian fluently. His books include The Administration of the Roman Empire (Exeter, 1988); Georgia in Antiquity: A History of Transcaucasian Georgia, 550 BC-AD 562 (Oxford, 1994); Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Caesar to Agricola (Routledge, 1996).