LEADER 03928nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910450235603321 005 20210604033043.0 010 $a1-282-35701-8 010 $a9786612357015 010 $a0-520-92955-1 010 $a1-59734-938-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520929555 035 $a(CKB)1000000000003694 035 $a(EBL)227333 035 $a(OCoLC)475933857 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280304 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228145 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280304 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10290354 035 $a(PQKB)11049877 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055888 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227333 035 $a(OCoLC)70772012 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30398 035 $a(DE-B1597)518943 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520929555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058537 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235701 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000003694 100 $a20021202d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe history of make-believe$b[electronic resource] $eTacitus on imperial Rome /$fHolly Haynes 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (246 p.) 225 1 $aThe Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23650-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Belief and Make-Believe --$t1. An Anatomy of Make-Believe --$t2. Nero --$t3. Power and Simulacra --$t4. Vespasian --$t5. A Civil Disturbance --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aA theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories, this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire.Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about the imaginary picture that imperial society makes of these concrete conditions of existence-the "making up and believing" that figure in both the subjective shaping of reality and the objective interpretation of it. Haynes traces Tacitus's development of this fingere/credere dynamic both backward and forward from the crucial year A.D. 69. Using recent theories of ideology, especially within the Marxist and psychoanalytic traditions, she exposes the psychic logic lurking behind the actions and inaction of the protagonists of the Histories. Her work demonstrates how Tacitus offers penetrating insights into the conditions of historical knowledge and into the psychic logic of power and its vicissitudes, from Augustus through the Flavians. By clarifying an explicit acknowledgment of the difficult relationship between res and verba, in the Histories, Haynes shows how Tacitus calls into question the possibility of objective knowing-how he may in fact be the first to allow readers to separate the objectively knowable from the objectively unknowable. Thus, Tacitus appears here as going further toward identifying the object of historical inquiry-and hence toward an "objective" rendering of history-than most historians before or since. 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 606 $aHISTORY / Ancient / General$2bisacsh 607 $aRome$xHistory$yFlavians, 69-96$xHistoriography 607 $aRome$xHistory$yCivil War, 68-69$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / Ancient / General. 676 $a937/.07/092 700 $aHaynes$b Holly$01027358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450235603321 996 $aThe history of make-believe$92442737 997 $aUNINA