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Deconstructing Imperial Representation: Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian

By Verena Schulz

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2019
ISBN
9789004407558, 9004407553
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1819177 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 427
Pages
422\409
Time added
2020-09-12 08:42:30

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This book analyses the literary strategies that Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in depicting the eccentric emperors Nero and Domitian and their imperial representation. ‎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 ‎3. 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

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