Unwritten Rome

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Political Life (1985), and Remembering the Roman People (2009). And on the study of Roman historiography, and from there to the myth-history of early Rome: see Clio’s Cosmetics (1979), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit, and Unwritten Rome (2008)

This is an important book, and that scholars dealing with early Rome will have to grapple with its basic arguments, even if they don’t agree with them.Gary D. Farney, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.06.11

• 1. Unwritten Rome2. What Can Livy Tell Us?3. Fauns, Prophets and Ennius' Annales4. The God of the Lupercal5. Liber: Myth, Drama and Ideology in Republican Rome6. The Kalends of April7. Summoning Jupiter: Magic in the Roman Republic8. Origines ludorum9. The Games of Flora10. The Games of Hercules11. Praetextae, Togatae and Other Unhelpful Categories12. Octavia and the Phantom Genre13. Ovid and the Stage14. The Prehistory of Roman Historiography15. History, Poetry and Annales16. The House of Tarquin17. The Legend of Lucius Brutus18. Roman Republic, Year OneBibliographyIndex