Historiography and Imagination

Historiography and Imagination
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Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 0859894223
ISBN-13 : 9780859894227
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Book Synopsis Historiography and Imagination by : Timothy Peter Wiseman

Download or read book Historiography and Imagination written by Timothy Peter Wiseman and published by University of Exeter Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on some of the more unfamiliar aspects of the Roman experience, where the historian needs not just knowledge but also imagination. It expores how the Romans made sense of their past and how people today can understand that history, despite the inadequate evidence for early Rome and the Republic. All Latin and Greek source material is translated. The first essay in this collection was the Ronald Syme Lecture for 1993; "The Origins of Roman Historiography" argues that dramatic performances at the public games were the medium through which the Romans in the "pre-literary" period made sense of their own past.


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