Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome

Tim Cornell is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Manchester and recently (2018–22) President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. He is the General Editor of The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013). Nicolas L.J. Meunier is the author of a commented translation of Ennius’ Annales and of a study on Livy. He is currently Assistant Professor of Latin Language and Ancient History at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). Daniele Miano is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oslo. He has worked on polytheism in ancient Italy, on memorial practices in republican Rome, and on ancient and modern historiography. Contributors are: Edoardo Bianchi, Tim Cornell, Roman M. Frolov, Chantal Gabrielli, Amber Gartrell, Nicolas L.J. Meunier, Daniele Miano, Marine Miquel, Jaclyn Neel, Stephen Oakley.

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Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series


 Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen





Acknowledgements


Note on Contributors





1 Introduction: The Historiography of Myth in Historiography


 Daniele Miano





2 The Epiphanies of the Dioscuri: Myth or History?


 Amber Gartrell





3 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Theopompus, and the Historical Marvel: The Rhetoric of Myth and the Myth of Rhetoric


 Daniele Miano





4 Augustan Historiography on the Mythical Aborigines: Ideology and Erudition in Dionysius, Trogus, and Timagenes


 Edoardo Bianchi





5 The Methodology of Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Book 1 of the Roman Antiquities


 Tim Cornell





6 Privatus or tribunus celerum? The Myth of Lucius Brutus and the Political Role of Private Individuals


 Roman M. Frolov





7 Political Violence between Myth and History: The Examples of Accius and Cicero


 Chantal Gabrielli





8 The Decemvirate and the Second Secession of the Plebs (451–449 BCE): A Historiographical fabula


 Nicolas L.J. Meunier





9 Men, Gods and Places in Early Rome: Myths in History in the First Century BCE


 Marine Miquel





10 The Precise Dating of Events in Dionysius’ Narrative of Rome’s Kings


 Stephen P. Oakley





11 Sculpting History into Myth: Tarpeia and Foreign Conquest


 Jaclyn Neel





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