This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. In analysis of particular passages close attention is given to the structure of the Latin, which is fully translated. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion.
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This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. In analysis of particular passages close attention is given to the structure of the Latin, which is also fully translated. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion.
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Tacitus is a notoriously difficult writer; the central theme of this study is what the difficulty of Tacitus means and what are the possible ways a reader can respond to this difficulty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mutiny episodes, loyal courage, sceptical historian, ancestral masks, ironic history, secular games Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Tacitus is a notoriously difficult writer; the central theme of this study is what the difficulty of Tacitus means and what are the possible ways a reader can respond to this difficulty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mutiny episodes, loyal courage, sceptical historian, ancestral masks, ironic history, secular games Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cremutius Cordus, Imperial Rome, Annaeus Seneca, Hayden White, Tiberian Rome New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Classical Closure by Deborah H. Roberts on page 22, and Back Matter
- The Augustan Aristocracy (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Sir Ronald Syme on page 121, and Back Matter
- The Annals of Tacitus: Volume 1, Annals 1.1-54 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) by Tacitus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reading Lacan by Jane Gallop on page 121, and Back Matter
- Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction by Malcolm Bowie on page 105, and Back Matter
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