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Unwritten Rome (Paperback)
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Unwritten Rome (Paperback)
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In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P.
Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of
the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited
world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This
original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved
empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments,
and from selected passages of later literature.How do you
understand a society that didn't write down its own history? That
is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the
conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all
written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly
anachronistic. But some possibly authentic evidence may survive, if
we can only tease it out - like the old story of a Roman king
acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate
in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of
eighteen attempts to find such material and make sense of it.
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