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" Remus : "
T.P. Wiseman.
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BL
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1031728
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b786098
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| Main Entry
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Wiseman, T. P., (Timothy Peter)
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Remus : : a Roman myth /\ T.P. Wiseman.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1995.
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xv, 243 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 22 cm
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0521419816
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: 0521483662
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: 9780521419819
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: 9780521483667
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index.
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| Contents
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A too familiar story -- Multiform and manifold -- When and where -- What the Greeks said -- Italian evidence -- The Lupercalia -- The arguments -- The life and death of Remus -- The uses of a myth -- The other Rome -- Appendix. Versions of the foundation of Rome.
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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, and treat Roman stories as of little interest. 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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Remus
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Remus
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Remus
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Remus
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Remus,(07.?-0753? av. J.-C.)
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Remus (Twin of Romulus, King of Rome)
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Mythology, Roman.
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Mythologie romaine.
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Historiography.
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Mythologie romaine.
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Mythology, Roman.
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Mythology, Roman.
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Mythevorming.
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Romulus en Remus.
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Rome, History, To 510 B.C., Historiography.
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Rome, History, To 510 B.C., Historiography.
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Rome, Histoire, Jusqu'à 510 av. J.-C., Historiographie.
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Rome (Empire)
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Rome, History, To 510 B.C., Historiography.
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Rome, Jusqu'à 510 av. J.-C.
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| Dewey Classification
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398.2/0937/602
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| LC Classification
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BL805.W57 1995
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11.17bcl
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15.52bcl
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