Murder Most Mythic
W.V. Harris, 23 May 1996
Remus: A Roman Myth
by T.P. Wiseman.
Cambridge, 243 pp., £35, September 1995,0 521 41981 6 Show More
by T.P. Wiseman.
Cambridge, 243 pp., £35, September 1995,
The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-246 BC)
by T.J. Cornell.
Routledge, 507 pp., £50, September 1995,0 415 01595 2 Show More
by T.J. Cornell.
Routledge, 507 pp., £50, September 1995,
“... and customs which hint at or reveal (but which?) the way things were in the archaic age. T.J. Cornell’s synthesis of early Roman history has some great virtues: it is learned, up-to-date (which is much to be commended, given the relative swiftness of recent archaeological developments in Rome and Lazio) and readable. It is also shot through with a ... ”
