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Deconstructing Imperial Representation
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, Supplements Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; 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 2Chapter 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 Foils3. 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 Connotations2. 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 Suetonius1. 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