Myth and history in the historiography of early Rome / / edited by Tim Cornell, Nicolas Meunier and Daniele Miano.

• Superior document: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Cornell, Tim; Meunier, Nicolas L. J.; Miano, Daniele
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; © 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- 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.