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Myths and Legends of Ancient Rome

Abandoned twins suckled by a wolf, Aeneas fleeing the sack of Troy, Jupiter’s shield falling from the sky with the fate of a city written upon it… Rome was fascinated with the legends of its own beginning, seeing in them the foundation of its manifest destiny to rule an empire that stretched from Scotland to Persia.

This collection was specially compiled for The Folio Society by Lawrence Norfolk, the award-winning novelist whose books affirm the imaginative power of classical legend in modern literature. He has selected all the most iconic stories drawing on Plutarch, Virgil, Livy and Ovid amongst others, but also lesser known traditions, including some of the more bizarre Roman superstitions, such as Lupercalia in which youths dressed in animal skins and smeared dog blood would whip female onlookers with strips of goatskin to promote fertility. Most books on Roman Legend comprise summaries which capture little of the epic force of the originals. Here, fresh and readable translations shatter the assumption that the Roman deities are merely pale shadows of the Greek pantheon and demonstrate incontrovertibly the huge diversity of these stories and their distinctive protagonists: the unique heroes, gods, and villains both worshipped and feared in Rome.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2008
• Quarter Leather with Cloth Sides Hardback, xviii, 301 pp
• Illustrated by Grahame Baker
• Size 260 x 180mm, 1.3kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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