Clio's Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman Literature

by T.P. Wiseman

Book Overview

Clio is Muse of history, her 'cosmetics' the adornments of rhetoric. Peter Wiseman's influential book, first published in 1979 and now for the first time in paperback, concerns the writing of history during the first century BCE, when Rome was in process of becoming the centre of the Greek, as much as her own, literary world. Historians, trained in the schools of rhetoric, prized elegant plausibility above the empirical objectivity we expect of them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190467500X
• ISBN13: 9781904675006
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"