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Author : B. Walker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus written by B. Walker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B Walker
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014896223
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Annals of Tacitus. A Study in the Writing of History written by B Walker and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mathew Owen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740000
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45 written by Mathew Owen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero's reign, chronicling the emperor's fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated 'marriage' to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero's 'grotesque' new palace, the so-called 'Golden House', from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero's gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero's most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen's and Gildenhard's incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus' prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
Author : Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Tacitus, The Histories written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellen O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521034951
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus written by Ellen O'Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture, writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of the political regime it represents. The strain on language and meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.
Author : Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852291634
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Annals and the Histories written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040246796
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Writing of History and the Study of Law written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of essays by Professor Kelley takes the study of history as its starting point, then extends explorations into adjacent fields of legal, political, and social thought to confront some of the larger questions of the modern human sciences. The first group of papers examine the historiography of the Protestant Reformation and then of the Romantic and Victorian periods; the last section focuses on the legal tradition and its interpretation in relation to social and cultural, as well as historical thought, in the period from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. Throughout, the author’s interest is to analyse how people at different times have viewed their past - and reconstructed and utilised it in the service of their present concerns.
Author : Tom Strunk
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047213020X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book History After Liberty written by Tom Strunk and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Tacitus' understanding of political liberty through his portrayals of Roman emperors and senators
Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781884964336
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing written by Kelly Boyd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192569104
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals written by Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.
Author : Tacitus
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141904798
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Annals of Imperial Rome written by Tacitus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1973-07-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life. Despite his claim that the Annals were written objectively, Tacitus' account is sharply critical of the emperors' excesses and fearful for the future of Imperial Rome, while also filled with a longing for its past glories.
Author : Jonathan Master
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119834
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus written by Jonathan Master and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tacitus’ narrative of 69 CE, the year of the four emperors, is famous for its description of a series of coups that sees one man after another crowned. Many scholars seem to read Tacitus as though he wrote only about the constricted world of imperial Rome and the machinations of emperors, courtiers, and victims of the principate; even recent work on the Histories either passes over or lightly touches upon civil unrest and revolts in the provinces. In Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Instability in the Histories of Tacitus, Jonathan Master looks beyond imperial politics and finds threats to the Empire’s stability among unassimilated foreign subjects who were made to fight in the Roman army. Master draws on scholarship in political theory, Latin historiography, Roman history, and ethnic identity to demonstrate how Tacitus presented to his contemporary audience in Trajanic Rome the dangerous consequences of the city’s failure to reward and incorporate its provincial subjects. Master argues that Tacitus’ presentation of the Vitellian and Flavian armies, and especially the Batavian auxiliary soldiers, reflects a central lesson of the Histories: the Empire’s exploitation of provincial manpower (increasingly the majority of all soldiers under Roman banners) while offering little in return, set the stage for civil wars and ultimately the separatist Batavian revolt.
Author : Rhiannon Ash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199285098
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Oxford Readings in Tacitus written by Rhiannon Ash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.
Author : William Allan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199665451
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Classical Literature written by William Allan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a wealth of material, he reveals just what makes the 'classics' such masterpieces and why they continue to influence and fascinate today.
Author : Victoria Emma Pagán
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405190329
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Tacitus written by Victoria Emma Pagán and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Aaron Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110627469
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History written by Aaron Turner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinction between ancient and modern modes of historical thought is characterized by the growing complexity of the discipline of history in modernity. Consequently, the epistemological and methodological standard of ancient historiography is typically held as inferior against the modern ideal. This book serves to address this apparent deficit. Its scope is three-fold. Firstly, it aims at encountering ancient modes of historical and historiographical thought within the province of their own horizon. Secondly, this book considers the possibility of a dialogue between ancient and modern philosophies of history concerning the influence of ancient historical thought on the development of modern philosophy of history and the utility of modern philosophy of history in the interpretation of ancient historiography. Thirdly, this book explores the continuities and discontinuities in historical method and thought from antiquity to modernity. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates the necessity of re-evaluating our assumptions about the relation of ancient and modern historical thought and lays the groundwork for a more fruitful dialogue in the future.
Author : H. H. Scullard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136783865
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book From the Gracchi to Nero written by H. H. Scullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scullard's clear and comprehensive narrative covers the period from 133 BC to 69 AD, exploring the decline and fall of the Republic, and the establishment of the Pax Romana under the early Principate. More than forty years after its first publication this masterful survey remains the standard textbook on the central period of Roman history.
