Francis Cairns Publications

COLLECTED CLASSICAL PAPERS ISSN 0951-7405

ROMAN STUDIES, LITERARY AND HISTORICAL

T.P. Wiseman

CCP 1. ISBN 978-0-905205-62-5. Cloth, xii+418pp. 1987. 

Contents   Reviews

The scholarship of T.P. Wiseman on the late Roman Republic is remarkable in combining vivid and detailed historical insight into the social, political and topographical realities of that period with a sympathetic understanding of late Republican literature, particularly the poetry of Catullus.

Roman Studies contains twenty-eight of his major periodical contributions up to 1983, and published for the first time 'The Masters of Sirmio', which explores the economic, political and literary associations of the great villa on Lake Garda associated with the family of Catullus.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction, by Elizabeth Rawson

I. PEOPLE AND POLITICS

Teidia's Husband (1963)
The Potteries of Vibienus and Rufrenus at Arretium (1963)
Some Republican Senators and their Tribes (1964)
Two More Senators (1965)
Lucius Memmius and his Family (1967)
The Ambitions of Quintus Cicero (1966)
Pulcher Claudius (1970)
The Definition of 'Eques Romanus' in the Late Republic and Early Empire (1970)
Review of E. Badian, Publicans and Sinners (1970)
Factions and Family Trees (1976)
Calpurnius Siculus and the Claudian Civil War (1982)

II. ROADS AND THE CITY

Viae Anniae (1964)
Viae Anniae Again (1969)
Roman Republican Road-Building (1970)
Two Questions on the Circus Flaminius (1976)
Strabo on the Campus Martius (1979)
Josephus on the Palatine (1980)
Looking for Camerius: the Topography of Catullus 55 (1980)
The Temple of Victory on the Palatine (1981)

III. LITERATURE AND LIFE

Legendary Genealogies in Late-Republican Rome (1974)
Camerius (1976)
Catullus 16 (1976)
Topography and Rhetoric: the Trial of Manlius (1979)
Practice and Theory in Roman Historiography (1981)
Pete nobiles amicos: Poets and Patrons in Late-Republican Rome (1982)
The Wife and Children of Romulus (1983)
The Credibility of the Roman Annalists (1983)
Domi nobiles and the Roman Cultural Elite (1983)

IV. THE MASTERS OF SIRMIO

Preface
Grotte di Catullo
Brixia and Verona
Local Aristocrats
A Senatorial Family
The Great Villa
Local Aristocrats Again
'Their History Intact'

Addenda and Corrigenda

Indexes: Passages discussed; Places; Persons

Bibliography: Works of T.P. Wiseman to 1987

Plates

Reviews

Revue des Etudes Latines 65 (1987) 425-7 (Philippe Moreau). "L'ensemble donne une bonne idée des intérêts de M. Wiseman: la fin de la République presque uniquement, mais sous tous ses aspects:littérature, prosopographie, histoire sociale et économique, topographie."

Classical Review 38 (1988) 380-83 (R.G.M. Nisbet). " It remains to emphasise once more the expertise, versatility, and resourcefulness of the author."

Gymnasium 95 (1988) 470-72 (Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp

Eirene 29 (1993) 150-51 (Klaus Wachtel)


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