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There was once a dream that was Rome. So says the old emperor Marcus Aureliusin Ridely Scotts epic Gladiator. It was a Rome of free citizens braveincorruptible loved by the gods. It had its own myths the stories thatdefined what the Romans were and in due course it achieved mythic statusitself. The myths of Rome have inspired artists writers and statesmenthroughout the ages from Botticellis Primavera and Shakespeares Romanplays to Machiavellis Discourses and Addisons Cato a key text for thefounding fathers of the American revolution. And yet while a wealth ofmaterial dealing with Greek myth exists the myths of Rome are a neglectedtopic. Some authorities have even claimed that the Romans had no mythology atall. Wisemans remarkable new contribution to this almost totally unexploredfield is highly illustrated and characteristically ambitious in its threefoldpurpose to collect and present in readable and accessible form the neglectedevidence for Roman myths both iconographical and literary to attempt to trace the development of the Roman storyworld over time fromthe sixth century BC to the second AD to explore its afterlife in western culture from the Renaissance to thepresent day with generous illustration of the visual evidence from ancient andpostRenaissance sources. «
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