Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Foundation of Rome : Myth and History - Alexandre Grandazzi

The Foundation of Rome

Myth and History

By: Alexandre Grandazzi, Jane Marie Todd (Translator)

Paperback | 5 September 2000

At a Glance

Paperback


$82.50

or 4 interest-free payments of $20.63 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

At once a historical essay and a self-conscious meditation on the writing of history, The Foundation of Rome takes as its starting point a series of accounts of Rome's origins offered over the course of centuries. Alexandre Grandazzi places these accounts in their contemporary contexts and shows how the growing sophistication in methodology gradually changed the accepted views of the city's origins. He looks, for example, at the hypercritical philology of the nineteenth century which cast aside everything that could not be verified. He then explains how the increase in archaeological discoveries and changing archaeological techniques influenced the story of Rome's birth.

Grandazzi produces a depiction of Rome's origins that is both up-to-date and provocative. His use of scientific parallels in describing changes in the ways texts were analyzed and his broad familiarity with comparative material make his synthesis particularly illuminating, and he writes with clarity, verve, and wit. The methodological and historiographical dimensions of this book, first published in France in 1991, have endeared it to many outside the field of ancient history.

Industry Reviews
"This is an enjoyable contribution to the debates about early Rome."-Christopher Smith, University of St. Andrews, The Journal of Roman Studies. 1999. "The Foundation of Rome is one of the few intelligent books on the subject, neither hypercritical nor visionary; its particular strength lies in the skillful interweaving of modern historiography and ideology with ancient history."-Jerzy Linderski, University of North Carolina

More in European History

The Glass Mountain : Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy - Malcolm Gaskill
The Maginot Line : A New History of the Fall of France - Kevin Passmore
Letters from a Stoic : The Ancient Classic - Seneca

RRP $24.95

$21.75

13%
OFF
The Catalpa Rescue - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
The Journals of Captain Cook : Penguin Classics - James Cook

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
Kokoda : Updated Edition - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Freedom : Memoirs 1954 - 2021 - Angela Merkel

RRP $34.99

$32.75

Bible of British Taste : Stories of Home, People and Place - Ruth Guilding
Armada : The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588 - Colin Martin
Raise Your Soul : A Personal History of Resistance - Yanis Varoufakis
Say Nothing : True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
Jane Austen at Home : A Biography - Lucy Worsley (

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Strange Death of Europe : Immigration, Identity, Islam - Douglas Murray
Churchill : Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF
The War on the West : How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason - Douglas Murray
The Book of Miracles. 45th Ed. - Till-Holger Borchert

RRP $54.99

$42.75

22%
OFF
Rebel Russia : Dissent and Protest from the Tsars to Navalny - Anna Arutunyan