Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Studies in Honour of T.P. Wiseman

The conference ＂Myth, History and Performance＂ was held in Exeter in March 2000 to celebrate the 60th birthday of classics scholar Wiseman. Revised versions of 13 papers explore such topics as land and people in republican Italy, Cicero on the uses of Greek culture, Catullus in and about Bithynia, poems to historians by Catullus and Horace, facts and fantasies about Cleopatra in Rome, Greek and Roman drama and the Aeneid , and Roman dynasts and Greek heroes. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Company. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)