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_aDeconstructing Imperial Representation : _bTacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian. |
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_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2019. |
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_aMnemosyne, Supplements Series ; _vv.427 |
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| 505 | 0 | _aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Content and Purpose of This Study -- Part 1. Constructing the Emperor in Historiography and Panegyric -- Chapter 1. Texts and Stories: On 'Dinners with the Emperor' -- 1. An Example: Constructing Imperial Dinners -- 2. Ingredients for a Good Imperial Dinner -- 3. Critical Texts: Digesting Bad Dinners -- 4. Conclusions Drawn from This Case Study -- Chapter 2. Theory and History -- 1. Imperial Representation: Nero and Domitian -- 2. Discourse and Deconstruction -- 3. Literature and Persuasiveness -- Part 2. Tacitus: Deconstruction and Uncertainty -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 3. Imperial Representation and Topics of Deconstruction -- 1. Military Actions: From Peace to Inactivity, from Victory to Hypocrisy -- 2. Building Endeavours: From Construction to Destruction -- 3. Public Entertainment: From Popular to Eccentric Performances -- 4. Nero's Speeches: Gaining Rhetorical Power -- 5. Divinity: From God-Like to Unhuman -- 6. Atmosphere: From Golden Age to the Dynamics of Bad Times -- Chapter 4. Strategies of Deconstruction in Tacitus -- 1. Overview: How to Deconstruct Imperial Representation -- 2. Negative Connotations: 'Facts', Additions, and Foils -- 3. Causation and Character -- 4. New Forms of Logic -- Chapter 5. Creating Uncertainty -- 1. Tacitus and Theories of Uncertainty -- 2. Playing with Variants -- 3. Playing with Oppositions -- 4. Uncertainty and Interpretation -- Conclusion to Part 2 -- Part 3. Cassius Dio: Deconstruction and Typologies -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Chapter 6. Writing Historiography under the Severans -- 1. The Roman History and the Early Third Century -- 2. Imperial Representation in the Roman History -- Chapter 7. Strategies of Deconstruction in Cassius Dio -- 1. Negative Connotations -- 2. Persuasive Characters. | |
| 505 | 8 | _a3. The Rhetoric of Combination -- 4. Selection and Focus -- 5. Spoiling the Atmosphere -- Chapter 8. Deconstruction and the Construction of Memory -- 1. Typologies of Bad Emperors -- 2. Hot Memory: Why Nero and Domitian? -- 3. Genealogies versus Typologies -- Conclusion to Part 3 -- Part 4. Suetonius: Deconstruction and Entertainment -- Introduction to Part 4 -- Chapter 9. Biography and Eccentric Representation -- 1. Structure and Criticism: Current Debates on Suetonius -- 2. Rubrics and Representation: Fragmentation and Re-contextualization -- Chapter 10. Strategies of Deconstruction in Suetonius -- 1. Historiographical Techniques in Imperial Biographies -- 2. Suetonian Techniques: The Effect of Rubrics -- 3. Ambivalent Techniques and a Weaker Form of Deconstruction -- Chapter 11. Deconstructed Elements and Miscellanism -- 1. Beyond Tacitus and Cassius Dio: Suetonian Deconstruction and the Historiographical Discourse -- 2. Between Pliny the Elder and Aulus Gellius: Suetonian Deconstruction and the Non-historiographical Discourse -- Conclusion to Part 4 -- Part 5. Conclusion -- Three Modes of Deconstruction -- Appendix. Deconstruction and Rhetorical Strategies -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index. | |
| 520 | _aThis book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperial representation. | ||
| 588 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
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