Download or read book A Historical Commentary on Tacitus Histories IV and V written by Guy Edward Farquhar Chilver and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Historical Commentary on Tacitus Histories IV and V written by Guy Edward Farquhar Chilver and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Histories written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Histories, Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes the murderous 'year of the four emperors' - A.D. 69. This is a revised edition of W.H. Fyfe's classic translation.
Download or read book Tacitus Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide written by Oxford University Press and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.
Download or read book The Histories written by Tacitus and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the events he describes, gives us a detailed account based on excellent authorities. In the 'long but single year' of revolution four emperors emerge in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Vespasian - who established the Flavian dynasty. Rhiannon Ash stays true to the spirit of Wellesley's prose whilst making the translation more accessible to modern readers.
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.
Download or read book Tacitus History of Politically Effective Speech written by Ellen O'Gorman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how Tacitus' representation of speech determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the principate. It argues against the traditional scholarly view that Tacitus refuses to offer a positive view of senatorial power in the principate: while senators did experience limitations and changes to what they could achieve in public life, they could aim to create a dimension of political power and efficacy through speeches intended to create and sustain relations which would in turn determine the roles played by both senators or an emperor. Ellen O'Gorman traces Tacitus' own charting of these modes of speech, from flattery and aggression to advice, praise, and censure, and explores how different modes of speech in his histories should be evaluated: not according to how they conform to pre-existing political stances, but as they engender different political worlds in the present and future. The volume goes beyond literary analysis of the texts to create a new framework for studying this essential period in ancient Roman history, much in the same way that Tacitus himself recasts the political authority and presence of senatorial speakers as narrative and historical analysis.
Download or read book Tacitus Histories Book I written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first historical work by Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus' Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature. Book I covers the beginning of the infamous 'Year of the Four Emperors' (69 CE), which brought imperial Rome to the brink of destruction after the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius ride the currents of senatorial politics and military sedition to power, while the survivor Vespasian waits just off-stage. After a distinguished public career during the principates of Vespasian and his sons, Tacitus, in middle age, embarked on a historical narrative recording the seering events of the Rome of his youth. This edition provides a Latin text of Book I, a commentary accessible to students of intermediate level and above, and an introduction discussing historical, literary, and stylistic issues. The chance survival of three parallel accounts permits detailed analysis of Tacitus' selection and stylization of material.
Download or read book Writing Imperial History written by Bram ten Berge and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how Tacitus contributed to our current understanding of history and reveals the themes that permeated his writing
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
Download or read book The Tacitus Encyclopedia written by Victoria Emma Pagán and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 1883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist das einzige vollständige Referenzwerk seiner Art im Bereich der Tacitus-Studien. Das zweibändige Werk enthält mehr als 1.000 Einträge zu jeder Person und jedem Ort, die in den erhaltenen Werken des römischen Historikers und Politikers Tacitus (ca. 56-120 n. Chr.) Erwähnung finden. In den von einem internationalen Autorenteam verfassten Beiträgen werden die bei Tacitus genannten Personen und Orte in den Kontext eingeordnet, und es werden ihre Beziehungen zum größeren taciteischen Korpus aufgezeigt. Die Einträge sind alphabetisch geordnet und mit Querverweisen versehen. Sie enthalten allgemeine Beschreibungen und Hintergrundinformationen zu den in den Texten genannten Stichworten, Zitate aus antiken Quellen und der einschlägigen Wissenschaft sowie Empfehlungen zum Weiterlesen. Die Enzyklopädie, die als Ausgangspunkt für weitere Forschungen gedacht ist, umfasst zudem 165 Themenschwerpunkte in Verbindung mit den Tacitus-Studien, darunter antike Geschichtsschreibung, Geschichte, Sozialgeschichte, Geschlecht und Sexualität, Literaturkritik, antike Autoren, Rezeption und materielle Kultur. Dieses unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk bietet nicht nur einen umfassenden Überblick über die Inhalte der taciteischen Schriften, sondern darüber hinaus: * Eine Darstellung von rund 1.000 Personen sowie 400 Regionen, Städten und Orten, geografischen und topologischen Merkmalen * Einen verständlichen Einstieg in die Werke des Tacitus, insbesondere die Annalen, Historien, Agricola, Germania und Dialogus de oratoribus für Leserinnen und Leser mit unterschiedlichen Vorkenntnissen * Die Erörterung einer großen Bandbreite an Themen wie Geschlechterfragen, Sklaverei, Literaturgeschichte sowie der Regentschaft einzelner Herrscher * Eine Präsentation der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Rezeption von Tacitus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart * Betrachtungen der wissenschaftlichen Trends, der aktuellen Methodik und künftigen Richtungen der Tacitus-Studien Das Werk The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist als Druckfassung und als Online-Version erhältlich. Es ist ein unentbehrliches Referenzwerk für Studierende und Forschende in den Bereichen Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung, Klassische Philologie, Kunstgeschichte, Sozialwissenschaften, Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Archäologie und Romanistik.
Download or read book Political Dissidence Under Nero written by Vasily Rudich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasily Rudich examines dissidence under Nero from both historical and psychological perspectives and inquires into the balance of the universal and historically conditioned components of political behaviour. The careers of numerous dissident individuals and their attempts at accomodation to a hostile reality are discussed.
Download or read book The Flavians written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Flavians, with accompanying maps, glossary and explanatory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, coins, inscriptions, papyri and extracts from legal texts, many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access.
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
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides written by Ryan Krieger Balot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into four sections-History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception-The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides provides a comprehensive introduction to Thucydides' ideas and their ancient influence. It bridges traditionally divided disciplines, and offers both solid explanation and innovative approaches.
Download or read book Dictionary of New Testament Background written by CRAIG A EVANS and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 2089 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Dictionary of New Testament Background' joins the 'Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels', the 'Dictionary of Paul and his Letters' and the 'Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments' as the fourth in a landmark series of reference works on the Bible. In a time when our knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean world has grown, this volume sets out for readers the wealth of Jewish and Greco-Roman background that should inform our reading and understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity. 'The Dictionary of New Testament Background', takes full advantage of the flourishing study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and offers individual articles focused on the most important scrolls. In addition, the Dictionary encompasses the fullness of second-temple Jewish writings, whether pseudepigraphic, rabbinic, parables, proverbs, histories or inscriptions. Articles abound on aspects of Jewish life and thought, including family, purity, liturgy and messianism. The full scope of Greco-Roman culture is displayed in articles ranging across language and rhetoric, literacy and book benefactors, travel and trade, intellectual movements and ideas, and ancient geographical perspectives. No other reference work presents so much in one place for students of the New Testament. Here an entire library of scholarship is made available in summary form. The Dictionary of New Testament Background can stand alone, or work in concert with one or more of its companion volumes in the series. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, this wealth of knowledge of the New Testament era is carefully aimed at the needs of contemporary students of the New Testament. In addition, its full bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series will make it the first book to reach for in any investigation of the New Testament in its ancient setting.
Download or read book Wit and the Writing of History written by Paul Plass and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wit has many uses in political discourse--to entertain, to underscore or unmask, to hinder or enhance insight. Wit and the Writing of History focuses on how this potential is realized in the historiography of the earlier Principate. Preeminently in Tacitus, to a lesser degree in Suetonius and Dio Cassius, wit is a vehicle for political understanding and judgment of the historical account. As part of Roman political life, hostile anecdotal or epigrammatic wit was deeply embedded in the sources used by historians and is reflected in the rhetoric of their narratives. Some anecdotes may, in fact, have been mere jests later taken as fact, hence the frequent problem of credulity. But what is historically false can be politically true. Not only were political jokes a weapon for making some fair points against the Principate; ancient rhetorical theory recognized that wit in general arises from a violation of normal, expected ways of thinking. What is "funny" is thus disturbing in a serious way as well as amusing, and in the hands of Tacitus wit becomes scalpel as well as sword.
