Tarpeia : Workings of a Roman Myth /

According to legends of Rome's foundation, Tarpeia was a maiden who betrayed Romulus' city to the invading Sabines. She was then crushed to death by the Sabines' shields and her body hurled from the Tarpeian Rock, which became the place from which subsequent traitors of the city were...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Welch, Tara S., 1967- (Awdur)
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Cyfres:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:Full text available:
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • The shape of variety: girl, city, Rome
  • Part one: Tarpeia, ethnicity, and being Roman in the republic
  • Fabius Pictor's greedy girl: not yet tota Italia
  • Tarpeia in silver: the denarii of the social war
  • Part two: Tarpeia and the Caesars: from republic to empire
  • Varro's Vestal version: Tarpeia in word and stone
  • Perspectives on and of Livy's Tarpeia
  • Elegiac Tarpeia (who won't stay put)
  • Valerius Maximus on remembering Tarpeia's memorable deed
  • Part three: Tarpeia from the outside in: Greek sources and the Roman empire
  • Hellenistic Tarpeia in the elegy of Simylus
  • On the edge of the knife in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
  • Songworthy Athens, invincible Rome: Tarpeia in Plutarch's Romulus.