The Myths of Rome

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of American Philological Association: C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2005. Shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize 2005. Widely reviewed and ce... Lees meer

The Myths of Rome

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Winner of American Philological Association: C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit 2005. Shortlisted for British Academy Book Prize 2005. Widely reviewed and ce... Lees meer

Julius Caesar: Pocket Giants

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels | Pocket Giants
• A clear and accessible explanation of Julius Caesar's dramatic life and historical significance Lees meer

Catullus and His World

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realit... Lees meer

The Death of Caligula

• Hardcover | Engels
• The emperor Gaius ('Caligula') was assassinated in January A.D.41. Since he was the last of the Julii, and he left no heir, it seemed that the dynasty... Lees meer

Historiography and Imagination

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels | Exeter Studies in History
• How did the Romans make sense of their own past? And how can we make sense of it, when the evidence for early Rome and the Republic is so inadequate? ... Lees meer

Talking to Virgil

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels
• A unique collection that uncovers connections between a fascinating assortment of subjects with classical associations, ranging from Plato to Anthony ... Lees meer

Remembering the Roman People

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the Peop... Lees meer

Remembering the Roman People

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels
• In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the Peop... Lees meer

The Myths of Rome

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• "There was once a dream that was Rome." So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator . It was a Rome of free citizens, bra... Lees meer

Unwritten Rome

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Clio's Cosmetics

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels | Bristol Phoenix Press Ignibus Paperbacks
• Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first t... Lees meer

The House of Augustus

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• A radical reexamination of the textual and archaeological evidence about Augustus and the Palatine Caesar Augustus (63 BC-AD 14), who is usually thoug... Lees meer

The Roman Audience

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Who were Roman authors writing for ? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on ... Lees meer

Catullan Questions Revisited

T P Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirica... Lees meer

The Death of Caligula

• Paperback | Engels
• The emperor Gaius ('Caligula') was assassinated in January A.D.41. Since he was the last of the Julii, and he left no heir, it seemed that the dynasty... Lees meer

Unwritten Rome

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels
• 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 ... Lees meer

Remus

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

Roman Drama and Roman History

T P Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels | Exeter Studies in History
• In this sequel to Historiography And Imagination (UEP 1994), Professor Wiseman explores the question of how the Romans understood their own past and t... Lees meer