In container (26 cm.). Title from container. "14 lectures"--Container. Includes bibliographical references (guide) Lecture given by Peter Meineck.
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.
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.
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