Add to ORKGThis chapter examines Tacitus\u27 representation of the legacy of civil war in his history of the Julio‐Claudian period, the Annals, arguing that civil war persists during the pax Augusta as a kind of banalization of state violence against citizens, a political system that consumes its own. It studies Tacitus\u27 multi‐episode account of Nero\u27s paranoid, possibly cynical, and ultimately self‐defeating appropriation of civil war exempla to motivate the suppression of potential dissent
The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but al...
Tacitus’ Annales present a comprehensive account of the formative early years of the Roman principat...
Introduction The Pannonian revolt (Ann. 1.16-30) is one of the sections that receives the least atte...
This chapter examines Tacitus\u27 representation of the legacy of civil war in his history of the Ju...
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villa...
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villa...
This dissertation purported to demonstrate how Tacitus\u27 recording of events in the Historiae and ...
In Book 13 of The Annals, Roman author and historian Tacitus narrates the murder of Britannicus by h...
In one of the best known passages in the Annals, Tacitus gives an account of the trial and death of ...
Tacitus\u27 claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones (Annals 3.65) should be ...
This paper argues that a close reading of Tacitus Histories 1.12-49 is crucial for understanding the...
Book XVI of Tacitus\u27 Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian\u27s ...
This thesis considers the geographical and chronological forms of ‘mirroring’ that offer a way of re...
Throughout Histories 1-3, Tacitus employs a motif of decapitation that functions as a metaphor for t...
Analyses of conflict in Tacitus have often been focussed on tbe constitution of the Principate, spec...
The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but al...
Tacitus’ Annales present a comprehensive account of the formative early years of the Roman principat...
Introduction The Pannonian revolt (Ann. 1.16-30) is one of the sections that receives the least atte...
This chapter examines Tacitus\u27 representation of the legacy of civil war in his history of the Ju...
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villa...
The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villa...
This dissertation purported to demonstrate how Tacitus\u27 recording of events in the Historiae and ...
In Book 13 of The Annals, Roman author and historian Tacitus narrates the murder of Britannicus by h...
In one of the best known passages in the Annals, Tacitus gives an account of the trial and death of ...
Tacitus\u27 claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones (Annals 3.65) should be ...
This paper argues that a close reading of Tacitus Histories 1.12-49 is crucial for understanding the...
Book XVI of Tacitus\u27 Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian\u27s ...
This thesis considers the geographical and chronological forms of ‘mirroring’ that offer a way of re...
Throughout Histories 1-3, Tacitus employs a motif of decapitation that functions as a metaphor for t...
Analyses of conflict in Tacitus have often been focussed on tbe constitution of the Principate, spec...
The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but al...
Tacitus’ Annales present a comprehensive account of the formative early years of the Roman principat...
Introduction The Pannonian revolt (Ann. 1.16-30) is one of the sections that receives the least atte...