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Cover 1 Title page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 8 Abbreviations 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 14 1. The Shape of Variety: Girl, City, Rome 32 2. Fabius Pictor's Greedy Girl: Not Yet Tota Italia 56 3. Tarpeia in Silver: The Denarii of the Social War 87 4. Varro's Vestal Version: Tarpeia in Word and Stone 114 5. Perspectives on and of Livy's Tarpeia 144 6. Elegiac Tarpeia: (Who Won't Stay Put) 176 7. Valerius Maximus on Remembering Tarpeia's Memorable Deed 212 8. Hellenistic Tarpeia in the Elegy of Simylus 232 9. On the Edge of the Knife in Dionysius of Halicarnassus 246 10. Songworthy Athens, Invincible Rome: Tarpeia in Plutarch's Romulus 261 Conclusion 291 Appendix 296 Bibliography 300 Index Locorum 324 General Index 334 Back Cover 339 Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2015,ISBN:9780814273838,Related ISBN:9780814212813,Language:English,OCLC:921296740 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 thrown. In t

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Author

Tara Welch

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814252185

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Folklore