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Remus : a Roman myth / T. P. Wiseman

Wiseman, T. P., 1940-

1. publ.

Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995

XV, 243 S. : Ill., Kt., graph. Darst. ; 22 cm

Englisch

1. A too familiar story -- 2. Multiform and manifold -- 3. When and where -- 4. What the Greeks said -- 5. Italian evidence -- 6. The Lupercalia -- 7. The arguments -- 8. The life and death of Remus -- 9. The uses of a myth -- 10. The other Rome -- Appendix: Versions of the foundation of Rome.

0-521-48366-2 ; 0-521-41981-6

OCoLC: 231652465     

OCoLC: 31607030 (aus SWB)     

FB 4018  | NH 8500      Ähnliche Literatur

398.20937602 ; 398.2/0937/602

Basisklassifikation: 15.28 (Römisches Reich)

*Remus, Fiktive Gestalt      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Remus -- (Twin of Romulus, King of Rome) ; Mythology, Roman ; Rome -- History -- To 510 B.C -- Historiography

Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece, and treat Roman stories as of little interest. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical explanation for its origin and development. His conclusions offer important new insights, both into the history and ideology of pre-imperial Rome and into the methods and motives of myth-creation in a non-literate society. In the richly unfamiliar Rome of Pan, Hermes and Circe the witch-goddess, where a general grows miraculous horns and prophets demand human sacrifice, Remus stands for the unequal struggle of the many against the powerful few

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Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece, and treat Roman stories as of little interest. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical explanation for its origin and development. His conclusions offer important new insights, both into the history and ideology of pre-imperial Rome and into the methods and motives of myth-creation in a non-literate society. In the richly unfamiliar Rome of Pan, Hermes and Circe the witch-goddess, where a general grows miraculous horns and prophets demand human sacrifice, Remus stands for the unequal struggle of the many against the powerful few