TY - BOOK ID - 135265006 TI - Myth and history in the historiography of early Rome AU - Cornell, Tim AU - Meunier, Nicolas L. J. AU - Miano, Daniele PY - 2023 SN - 9789004534506 9004534504 9004534490 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Mythology, Roman KW - Historiography. KW - Rome UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135265006 AB - The histories of early Rome written in antiquity by the likes of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus include many sensational stories, from the she-wolf suckling the twins to the miraculous conception of Servius Tullius and the epiphany of the Dioscuri at Lake Regillus. Even the more sober parts of the narrative are of dubious historicity, and certainly include a good deal of rhetorical invention, aetiologies and folktales. The essays composing this volume attempt to analyse these stories to explore the porous boundaries and the hybrid borrowings between myth, history and historiography, and the limits of historical knowledge. ER -