Isbn: 9789004407213 - deconstructing imperial representation: tacitus, cassius dio, and suetonius on nero and domitian (6 résultats)

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Etat : New. &Uumlber den AutorVerena Schulz is a Classical Philologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen. She has published a monograph (Die Stimme in der antiken Rhetorik, 2014), an edited volume, and many articles on Roman hist.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits. Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius discuss the same historical figures and events of early imperial Rome, they are rarely examined together in one volume. Verena Schulz offers the first combined reading of their works from a philological viewpoint, analysing the various rhetorical techniques and narratological devices that they display, and the different literary and historical discourses in which they are embedded.…

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