Wiseman Timothy Peter. The myths of Rome

Monograph. — Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004. — xxii, 390 p.The Myths of Rome is undertaken a reconstruction of how the Romans envisaged, fabricated and communicated interdependent, multiform and inclusive stories of what it meant to be Roman. T.P. Wiseman is adamant in disabusing the persistent understanding of Rome as ‘a world without myths’; and, to do so, he attempts to ‘re-interpret the Roman story-world’ in light of the knowledge that myth and history do not exclude each other. In the process of excavating, recording and interpreting the neglected iconographical and literary fabric of Rome’s cultural habitus, Wiseman provides a study of considerable interest to the non-professional reader and a provocative and stimulating conspectus of his abiding historical concerns to all students of myth.