Research Catalog

Title

Roman drama and Roman history / T.P. Wiseman.

Author

Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter)

Publication

Exeter, Devon, UK : University of Exeter Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xii, 228 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Exeter studies in history(unnumbered)

Uniform Title

Exeter studies in history (Unnumbered)

Subject

• To 500
• Latin literature > History and criticism
• Latin drama > History and criticism
• Literature and history > Rome
• Theater > History > To 500
• Historiography > Rome
• Theater > Rome
• Rome > Historiography
• Rome > History
• Rome > In literature

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The history of a hypothesis -- Tales unworthy of the gods -- Ovid on Servius Tullius -- Two plays for the Liberalia -- The tragedy of Gaius Gracchus -- Crossing the Rubicon -- The poet, the plebs, and the chorus girls -- Valerius Antias and the palimpsest of history -- The Minucii and their monument -- Rome and the resplendent Aemilii -- E.S. Beesly and the Roman revolution -- Late Syme: a study in historiography -- Hermann Reich, "On the sources of early Roman history and Roman national tragedy" -- The ludi saeculares.

ISBN

0859895602 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 39295863
• SCSB-11718985

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library