Deconstructing imperial representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian

What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They...

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Main Author: Schulz, Verena 1982- (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2019]
Series:Mnemosyne supplements volume 427
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits.0Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius discuss the same historical figures and events of early imperial Rome, they are rarely examined together in one volume. Verena Schulz offers the first combined reading of their works from a philological viewpoint, analysing the various rhetorical techniques and narratological devices that they display, and the different literary and historical discourses in which they are embedded
Physical Description:XII, 410 Seiten
ISBN:9789004407213

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