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Roman Drama and Roman HistoryIn this sequel to Historiography And Imagination (UEP 1994), Professor Wiseman explores the question of how the Romans understood their own past and the role of early drama in generating and transmitting legends. The first six of the book's twelve essays are concerned with stories and scenarios in the surviving literature which are best explained as having been first created for the stage. The other essays discuss the family traditions of Roman

who rivals Virgil as the greatest of all Latin poets

the development of Spartan traditional customs to meet the demands of the Roman tourist trade

'The finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English language' The Scotsman

Alcestis/Hippolytus/Iphigenia in Tauris

Στα 1963 και ενώ ο Χατζής βρίσκεται στην Ουγγαρία κυκλοφορεί η πρώτη πλήρης έκδοσή του στο τυπογραφείο Α

archaeology and memoir

η δεκαπεντάχρονη Θέμις βλέπει την οικογένειά της να ταλανίζεται από βαθιές πολιτικές διαφορές

He is known to have been there two years

Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius

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and extensive cross-references between the seven plays

legitimated the prominence of bishops and clerics