Thesis
Augustan accounts of the regal period
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This thesis examines accounts of the regal period in Cicero's de republica, Varro, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy, as well as references to the period in Propertius IV and Ovid's Fasti. Cicero, Varro and Dionysius all present idealized accounts of the period, responding to the aetiological traditions concerning it, and making Rome's founders represent ideal originators, in different ways depending on the nature of their interests. Cicero acknowledges the problems of...
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1991
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
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- Local pid:
- td:602328860
- Source identifiers:
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- Deposit date:
- 2013-06-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Fox, M. A.
- Copyright date:
- 1991
- Notes:
- The digital copy of this thesis has been made available thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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