The histories of early Rome written in antiquity by the likes of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus include many sensational stories, from the she-wolf suckling the twins to the miraculous conception of Servius Tullius and the epiphany of the Dioscuri at Lake Regillus. Even the more sober parts of the narrative are of dubious historicity, and certainly include a good deal of rhetorical invention, aetiologies and folktales. The essays composing this volume attempt to analyse these stories to explore the porous boundaries and the hybrid borrowings between myth, history and historiography, and the limits of historical knowledge.
Author(s): Daniele Miano, Tim Cornell, Nicolas Meunier
Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, 17
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 260
City: Leiden
Contents
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Historiography of Myth in Historiography
Chapter 2 The Epiphanies of the Dioscuri: Myth or History?
Chapter 3 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Theopompus, and the Historical Marvel: The Rhetoric of Myth and the Myth of Rhetoric
Chapter 4 Augustan Historiography on the Mythical Aborigines: Ideology and Erudition in Dionysius, Trogus, and Timagenes
Chapter 5 The Methodology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Book 1 of the Roman Antiquities
Chapter 6 Privatus or tribunus celerum? The Myth of Lucius Brutus and the Political Role of Private Individuals
Chapter 7 Political Violence between Myth and History: The Examples of Accius and Cicero
Chapter 8 The Decemvirate and the Second Secession of the Plebs (451–449 BCE): A Historiographical fabula
Chapter 9 Men, Gods and Places in Early Rome: Myths in History in the First Century BCE
Chapter 10 The Precise Dating of Events in Dionysius’ Narrative of Rome’s Kings
Chapter 11 Sculpting History into Myth: Tarpeia and Foreign Conquest
Index
