Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome - Couverture rigide

Neel, Jaclyn

 
9789004272699: Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004272690 ISBN 13 : 9789004272699
Editeur : Brill, 2014

Synopsis

In Legendary Rivals Jaclyn Neel argues for a new interpretation of the foundation myths of Rome. Instead of a negative portrayal of the city's early history, these tales offer a didactic paradigm of the correct way to engage in competition.
Accounts from the triumviral period stress the dysfunctional nature of the city's foundation to capture the memory of Rome's civil wars. Republican evidence suggests a different emphasis. Through diachronic analyses of the tales of Romulus and Remus, Amulius and Numitor, Brutus and Collatinus, and Camillus and Manlius Capitolinus, Neel shows that Romans of the Republic and early Principate would have seen these stories as examples of competition that pushed the bounds of propriety.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jaclyn Neel, PhD (2012) University of Toronto, is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at York University. She has published in Classical Quarterly (forthcoming 2015) and Vetus Testamentum (2012).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004272690
ISBN 13 
9789004272699
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
284
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