Remus

Remus
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0521483662
ISBN-13 : 9780521483667
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Book Synopsis Remus by : Timothy Peter Wiseman

Download or read book Remus written by Timothy Peter Wiseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical explanation for its origin and development. His conclusions offer important new insights, both into the history and ideology of pre-imperial Rome and into the methods and motives of myth-creation in a non-literate society. In the richly unfamiliar Rome of Pan, Hermes and Circe the witch-goddess, where a general grows miraculous horns and prophets demand human sacrifice, Remus stands for the unequal struggle of the many against the powerful few.


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