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Classical mythology : the Romans

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  • Author: Meineck, Peter
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2005
    Summary:

    In this course, New York University professor Peter Meineck examines, in detail, the way in which military power, colonial organization, superior technology, a well-organized infrastructure, and a cohesive economic system helped to make Rome such a sucessful empire. These elements of Roman genius are well known, but it was the very idea of Rome that proved persuasive and this Roman ideal was born from mythology.

    Contents:
    • Mythological Rome
    • The making of myth: how the Romans recorded their mythology
    • Greek myths and the Romans: Cacus, Hercules, and the Greeks in Italy
    • Arcadian fantasies: the fathers of the founders
    • Trojan ancestors: the myth of Aeneas
    • Romulus and Remus
    • The seven kings of Rome
    • Etruscan kings in Rome: myth or history?
    • Myths of the Republic
    • Myths of Roman expansion
    • Virgil and The Aeneid (part one)
    • The Aeneid (part two)
    • Ovid
    • The survival of classical myth.

     

    Genre:
    Instructional and educational works, Literary arts, History and geography
    Subject(s): Civilization, Western | Classical influences | Mythology, Classical | Mythology, Roman
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781449893200