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008			260928s1996 xxk 0 eng d
020			_a9780198150206
020			_a0198150202
040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a870.915 _bFOX _223
100	1		_aFox, Matthew _eauthor
245	1	0	_aRoman historical myths : _bthe regal period in Augustan literature / _cFox, Matthew
264		1	_aOxford [England] : _bClarendon Press, _c1996
300			_a269 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aThis book offers an enlivening and sophisticated analysis of the pervasive use of historical myth in some of the most well known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods - from Cicero in the De Republica and the first book of Livy to Propertius IV and Ovid's Fasti. The chapters on prose narrative uncover an uneasy tension between the desire for accurate historical representation and the legendary character of traditional stories.In the light of modern theories of historical truth, Matthew Fox argues that narrative itself expresses a kind of belief in myths, and that this belief is in turn conditioned by historical circumstance. In this way, the accounts of Rome's regal period in both prose and verse bear witness to the uncertainties and upheavals at the end of the Republic.At the same time, Dr Fox argues for a more sophisticated relationship between political and textual rea
650		0	_aAugustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence.
650		0	_aLatin literature -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aHistorical poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
650		0	_aNarration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
650		0	_aLiterature and history -- Rome.
650		0	_aMythology, Roman, in literature.
650		0	_aLegends -- Rome -- Historiography.
650		0	_aRhetoric, Ancient.
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