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"...a pleasure to read and will lead, one hopes, to renewed interest in the myth of the foundation of Rome and its central characters." Religious Studies Review
"[This] wonderfully clear narrative demonstrates the best of contempoary scholarship..." Choice
"...[a] wild and wonderful book." Times Literary Supplement
"...Wiseman packs several centuries worth of primary sources and scholarship into a delightfully written argument. Wiseman's Remus is required reading for anyone with an interest in Roman mythology, history, or literature." Cynthia Bannon, Folklore Forum
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This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate society.
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"...a pleasure to read and will lead, one hopes, to renewed interest in the myth of the foundation of Rome and its central characters." Religious Studies Review
"[This] wonderfully clear narrative demonstrates the best of contempoary scholarship..." Choice
"...[a] wild and wonderful book." Times Literary Supplement
"...Wiseman packs several centuries worth of primary sources and scholarship into a delightfully written argument. Wiseman's Remus is required reading for anyone with an interest in Roman mythology, history, or literature." Cynthia Bannon, Folklore Forum
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This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate society.
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The first history of Rome was written by Quintus Fabius Pictor, a senator from a very famous patrician family. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
augury contest, phantom phallus, primal twins, ludi plebeii, ludi scaenici, twin founders, thirty stades, consular fasti, twins story, foundation legend, foundation story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fabius Pictor, Circus Maximus, Ficus Ruminalis, Sacred Mount, Licinius Macer, Alba Longa, Lares Praestites, Pairault Massa, Via Appia, Bona Dea, Divine Twins, Fabius Rullianus, Forum Bovarium, Arnaldo Momigliano, Cassius Hemina, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Licinius Stolo, Pan Lykaios, Plebeian Games, Quo Vadis, Vestal Virgin New!
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The first history of Rome was written by Quintus Fabius Pictor, a senator from a very famous patrician family. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
augury contest, phantom phallus, primal twins, ludi plebeii, ludi scaenici, twin founders, thirty stades, consular fasti, twins story, foundation legend, foundation story Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fabius Pictor, Circus Maximus, Ficus Ruminalis, Sacred Mount, Licinius Macer, Alba Longa, Lares Praestites, Pairault Massa, Via Appia, Bona Dea, Divine Twins, Fabius Rullianus, Forum Bovarium, Arnaldo Momigliano, Cassius Hemina, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Licinius Stolo, Pan Lykaios, Plebeian Games, Quo Vadis, Vestal Virgin New!
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- The Roman Republic: Second Edition by Michael Crawford in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Oswyn Murray in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 8: Rome and the Mediterranean to 133 BC by A. E. Astin on page 104, and Back Matter
- Roman myths by Michael Grant on page 98, and Back Matter
- Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders by Kurt A. Raaflaub in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Liv Mariah Yarrow on page 170, page 172, and Back Matter
- Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at Its Bimillennium by Geraldine Herbert-Brown in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Death and Disease in the Ancient City (Routledge Classical Monographs) by Valerie Hope in Back Matter
- Classical Literature: A Concise History (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World) by Richard Rutherford in Back Matter
- King of the Wood: The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil's Aeneid (Oklahoma Series for Classical Culture) by Julia T. Dyson in Back Matter
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