A companion to Tacitus / / edited by Victoria Emma Pagan

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (0 p.)
• Disciplina: 937/.07092
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Historiography
• Classificazione: 6,12; FX 225505
• Altri autori: PagánVictoria Emma <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The textual transmission / Charles E. Murgia -- The Agricola / Dylan Sailor -- Germania / James B. Rives -- Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus : a socio-cultural history / Steven H. Rutledge -- The histories / Jonthan Master -- The annals / Herbert W. Benario -- Tacitus' sources / David Potter -- Tacitus and Roman historiography / Arthur Pomeroy -- The concentration of power and writing history : forms of historical persuasion in The histories (1.1-49) / Olivier Devillers -- Deliberative oratory in The annals and the Dialogus / Christopher S. van den Berg -- Tacitus' senatorial embassies of 69 CE / Kathryn Williams -- Deuotio, disease, and remedia in The histories / Rebecca Edwards -- Tacitus in the twenty-first century : the struggle for truth in Annals 1-6 / Barbara Levick -- Tacitus' history and mine / Holly Haynes -- Seneca in Tacitus / James Ker -- Annum quiete et otio transiit : Tacitus (Ag. 6.3) and Sallust on liberty, tyranny, and human dignity / Christopher B. Krebs -- "Let us tread our path together" : Tacitus and the Younger Pliny / Christopher Whitton -- Tacitus and epic / Timothy A. Joseph -- Silius italicus and Tacitus on the tragic hero : the case of Germanicus / Eleni Manolaraki and Antony Augoustakis -- Historian and satirist : Tacitus and Juvenal / Catherine Keane -- Masculinity and gender performance in Tacitus / Thomas Spath -- Women and domesticity / Kristina Milnor -- Postcolonial approaches to Tacitus / Nancy Shumate -- Tacitus and political thought / Daniel Kapust.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author. * Tacitus is one of the most important Roman historians of his time, as well as a great literary stylist, whose work is characterized by his philosophy of human nature * Encourages interdisciplinary discussion intended to engage scholars beyond Classics including philosophy, cultural studies, political science, and literature * Showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our understanding of this complex author * Clarifies and explains the notoriously difficult language of Tacitus * Written and designed to prepare a new generation of scholars to examine for themselves the richness of Tacitean thought * Includes contributions from a broad range of established international scholars and rising stars in the field
• Titolo autorizzato: Companion to Tacitus
• ISBN: 9786613435675; 9781782687184; 1782687181; 9781444354157; 1444354159; 9781444354188; 1444354183; 9781283435673; 1283435675; 9781118381977; 1118381971; 9781444354164; 1444354167
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910265229003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to the ancient world.