Myth, History and Archaeology : Essays and Reviews, 2000-2025 /

Myth, History and Archaeology : Essays and Reviews, 2000-2025 /

A bronze mirror of the fourth century BC shows a she-wolf suckling infant twins. You may think that's a familiar story, but who are the other figures in the scene, and why is there a lion so prominent in the foreground? The image typifies the problems involved in studying the history and evolut...

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Main Author: Wiseman, T.P. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 497.

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Ancient History.
Archaeology, Art & Architecture.
Classical Studies.

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Start of a Long Story
  • 1 Review of Andrea Carandini, La nascita di Roma
  • 2 Review of Andrea Carandini, Rome: Day One
  • 2 Reading Carandini
  • 1 The exhibition
  • 2 Divine kings and mythic memory
  • 3 What were the Lares?
  • 4 Twins and Quirites
  • 5 The altar and the trench
  • 6Giornale di scavo
  • 3 The Prehistory of Roman Hellenism
  • 1 Romans and Greeks
  • 2 Greek in Latin
  • 4 The City that Never Was: Alba Longa and the Historical Tradition
  • 1 The city
  • 2 Pliny on archaic Latium
  • 3 The dynasty
  • 5 Velleius Mythistoricus
  • 1 Beginnings
  • 2 Hercules
  • 3 Campania
  • 6 Gods in Roman History
  • 1 Visible gods
  • 2 Audible gods
  • 3 Believers and agnostics
  • 4 Popular belief
  • 5 Ambivalence
  • 7 Memory and Stories: An Anthology
  • 1 Memory and history
  • 2 The historian's problem
  • 3 First pseudo-solution
  • 4 Second pseudo-solution
  • 5 History and fiction
  • 6 Dramatic presentation
  • 7 Information and education
  • 8 Ritual and remembrance
  • 8 Alföldi's Early Rome and the Latins
  • 1 Dogma
  • 2 Evidence
  • 3 Authority
  • 9 Archaeology and Legend: The Grave on the Palatine
  • 1 A site with a history
  • 2 The memory fallacy
  • 3 Whose grave was it?
  • 4 Making it too easy
  • 10 From Romulus to Tarquin: Reconstructing Rome's Expansion
  • 1 An exemplary work
  • 2 'Hypercritics'
  • 3 Multiple foundations
  • 4Roma quadrata and the pomerium
  • 5 Gates and walls
  • 6 The beginning of Rome
  • 11 The Migrant Queen
  • 1 Theiosso
  • 2 Elissa
  • 3 Dido
  • 12 Herakles at Hartland
  • 1 An unexpected temple
  • 2 An ocean-going hero comes to Rome
  • 3 The tin route
  • 13 Not the Tomb of Romulus (but perhaps something more interesting)
  • 1Ossa Quirini
  • 2 A pignus ?
  • 14 Plutarch, Dionysius and the Creation of Romulus
  • 1 Dionysius and Plutarch
  • 2 The wars of Romulus
  • 3 Myth creation
  • 4 A Latin founder
  • 5 Expanding the hero's story
  • 6 Uniting the peoples
  • 7 Contemporary evidence
  • 8 Plutarch's perspective
  • 9 Rome before the culture wars
  • 10 Conclusions
  • 15 The Black Stone and the Tomb of Romulus: January-June, 1899
  • 1 Finding it and naming it
  • 2 The reaction
  • 3 'Non è in alcun modo sostenibile'
  • 4 Festus (and Verrius Flaccus)
  • 5 The Horatian commentators (and Varro)
  • 6 Dionysius of Halicarnassus (and Varro?)
  • 7 The lions and the pillar
  • 8 Chronology and stratigraphy
  • 9 Faustulus and Hostus Hostilius
  • 10 What has been learned?
  • 16 Making Myths: Hostus Hostilius and his Grandson
  • 1 Two items in Pliny
  • 2 An explanation in Macrobius
  • 3 A catch-up paragraph in Dionysius
  • 4 A burnt page in Festus
  • 5 A battle in Livy and Plutarch
  • 6 King Tullus
  • 7 The historical Hostilii
  • 8 Wartime festivals
  • 9 Two urban praetors
  • 10 The backlash
  • 17 Propertius on Triumphs and Tarpeia
  • 1 The house-door's complaint
  • 2 Triumphs
  • 3 Tarpeia before Tatius
  • 4 Tarpeia the betrayer
  • 5 Varro and the Vestal
  • 6 Roman stories
  • 7 Back to the house-door's complaint
  • 18 Orosius, Justin and the Afterlife of Myth
  • 1 Rewriting Romulus
  • 2 Artwork captions
  • 3 Tapestries
  • 4 Romelus and Remelus in Cornwall
  • 5 'Where did you learn this story?'
  • Epilogue 2025
  • Bibliography
  • Index.