Historiography and Imagination: Eight Essays on Roman Culture

by T.P. Wiseman

How did the Romans make sense of their own past? And how can we make sense of it, when the evidence for early Rome and the Republic is so inadequate? In this volume, Professor Wiseman focuses on some of the more unfamiliar aspects of the Roman experience, where the historian needs not just knowledge but imagination too. The first essay in the book, the 1993 Ronald Syme Lecture 'The Origins of Historiography', argues that dramatic performances at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859894223
• ISBN13: 9780859894227
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"