Tacitus, annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 : Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and commentary / / Mathew Owen and Ingo Gildenhard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910140174003321
• Autore: Owen Mathew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Open Book Publishers; Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-78374-003-5; 2-8218-5411-0; 1-78374-002-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 268 pages) : illustrations, colour maps, genealogical table; digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: [Classics textbooks , 2054-2445 ; ; volume 3]
• Disciplina: 937.07
• Soggetti: Humanities; Rhetoric; Rome History Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: a Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Preface and acknowledgements -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Tacitus: life and career -- 2.2 Tacitus' times: the political system of the principate -- 2.3 Tacitus' oeuvre: opera minora and maiora -- 2.4 Tacitus' style (as an instrument of thought) -- 2.5 Tacitus' Nero-narrative: Rocky-Horror-Picture Show and Broadway on the Tiber -- 2.6 Thrasea Paetus and the so-called ‘Stoic opposition' -- 3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid -- 4. Commentary -- Section 1: Annals 15.20–23 -- (i) 20.1–22.1: The Meeting of the Senate -- (ii) 22.2: Review of striking prodigies that occurred in AD 62 -- (iii) 23.1–4: Start of Tacitus' account of AD 63: the birth and death of Nero's daughter by Sabina Poppaea, Claudia Augusta -- Section 2: Annals 15.33–45 (AD 64) -- (i) 33.1–34.1: Nero's coming-out party as stage performer -- (ii) 34.2–35.3: A look at the kind of creatures that populate Nero's court – and the killing of an alleged rival -- (iii) 36: Nero considers, but then reconsiders, going on tour to Egypt -- (iv) 37: To show his love for Rome, Nero celebrates a huge public orgy that segues into a mock-; wedding with his freedman Pythagoras -- (v) 38–41: The fire of Rome -- (vi) 42–43: Reconstructing the Capital: Nero's New Palace -- (vii) 44: Appeasing the Gods, and Christians as Scapegoats -- (viii) 45: Raising of Funds for Buildings -- 5. Bibliography -- 6. Visual aids -- 6.1 Map of Italy -- 6.2 Map of Rome -- 6.3 Family Tree of Nero and Junius Silanus -- 6.4 Inside the Domus Aurea
• Sommario/riassunto: "The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's 'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought."--Publisher's website.

Mortal remains : death in early America / / edited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973884003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9780812218237; 081221823X; 9781283898911; 1283898918; 9780812208061; 0812208064
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Material texts Jeremiah's scribes
• Classificazione: HS 1691
• Altri autori (Persone): IsenbergNancy; BursteinAndrew
• Disciplina: 306.9
• Soggetti: Death - Social aspects - United States; Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States - History; United States Social life and customs To 1775; United States Social life and customs 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Christian origins of the vanishing Indian / Laura M. Stevens -- Blood will out: sensationalism, horror, and the roots of American crime literature / Daniel A. Cohen -- A tale of two cities: epidemics and rituals of death in eighteenth-century Boston and Philadelphia / Robert V. Wells -- Death and satire: dismembering the body politic / Nancy Isenberg -- Immortalizing the founding fathers: the excesses of public eulogy / Andrew Burstein -- The politics of tears: death in the early American novel / Julia Stern -- Major André's exhumation / Michael Meranze -- Patriotic remains: bones of contention in the early Republic / Matthew Dennis -- A peculiar mark of infamy: dismemberment, burial, and rebelliousness in slave societies / Douglas R. Egerton -- Immortal messengers: angels, gender, and power in early America / Elizabeth Reis -- "In the midst of life we are in death": affliction and ; religion in antebellum New York / Nicholas Marshall -- The romantic landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the rural cemetery movement / Thomas G. Connors.
• Sommario/riassunto: Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars join forces to explore how, in a medically primitive and politically evolving environment, mortality became an issue that was inseparable from national self-definition.Attempting to make sense of their suffering and loss while imagining a future of cultural permanence and spiritual value, early Americans crafted metaphors of death in particular ways that have shaped the national mythology. As the authors show, the American fascination with murder, dismembered bodies, and scenes of death, the allure of angel sightings, the rural cemetery movement, and the enshrinement of George Washington as a saintly father, constituted a distinct sensibility. Moreover, by exploring the idea of the vanishing Indian and the brutality of slavery, the authors demonstrate how a culture of violence and death had an early effect on the American collective consciousness.Mortal Remains draws on a range of primary sources-from personal diaries and public addresses, satire and accounts of sensational crime-and makes a needed contribution to neglected aspects of cultural history. It illustrates the profound ways in which experiences with death and the imagery associated with it became enmeshed in American society, politics, and culture.