Verena Schulz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Schulz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Schulz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULZ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4530-0387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Expressing Contempt in Rome—Language, Rhetoric, and Critique
This article presents three brief case studies of the way Romans talked about and expressed contempt. It examines aspects of discourses about contempt that are characteristic both of Roman literature and of modern concepts. The focus is on the relationship of hierarchy, recognition, and (active and passive) contempt in the Latin vocabulary and in two literary motifs taken from invective and historiography, two genres in which expressions of conte…
Formen des Vergessens bei Tacitus
Tacitus understands himself as a historiographer who writes against forgetting. This essay examines how Tacitus conceives of forgetting and how he depicts processes of forgetting. (1) First I will introduce forgetting as an important research theme in modern memory studies. Research on forgetting can help us to understand transformations in the collective memory of modern and ancient social groups. (2) In Tacitus’ works about Roman imperial histo…
While Rome Burned
342 PHOENIX ideal (cf. the caption at 147, 157–160; 234–239), the latter demonstrating moral progress as sexual violence is no longer used. I also find many of Hösle’s thematic analyses in the last parts of the book convincing, for example, that of the love-triangles in Book 13 and 14, the metapoetic quality of the “female Orpheus” (“weiblicher Orpheus”) Canens as an example of “progress” brought about by Italy (“auch dies ein Fortschritt Italien…
Three Modes of Deconstruction
Material to Remember
This paper discusses how the space designed by ‘bad’ emperors such as Nero and Domitian is described in Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius. It argues that these authors use space to depict these emperors as tyrants. First, we will study how Roman emperors use space to fashion their memory. Their design of space is subject to interpretation, in particular as regards Roman emperors who were praised during their lifetime, but were considered tyrant…
Deconstructing Imperial Representation
What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits. Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suet…
Defining the Good Ruler
Historiography and Panegyric
Historiographical discourse reacts to panegyrical accounts of imperial representation. In the case of eccentric emperors who are praised during their lifetime but criticised post mortem, historiographers aim to deconstruct former positive descriptions in their works. This chapter explores the deconstruction of imperial representation in Cassius Dio through the example of Domitian. After (1) introductory remarks about the relation of panegyrical a…
Kalkuliertes Missverstehen
The communication processes between princeps and the Roman upper class, which Tacitus presents in his Annales, run strikingly counter to any model of communication based on understanding and to Grice’s conversational maxims. They can be described, instead, through two levels of communication in which certain contents are intended to be concealed and not understood. On one level, visible from the outside, the communicators allow signs to appear th…
Die Stimme in der antiken Rhetorik
English summary: Even though the interest in rhetoric does still not recline today and even though the orator's performance was considered the most important element of oratory in antiquity, there has been no detailed piece of research on the voice of the orator in ancient rhetoric so far. This book aims at closing this gap. To achieve this, we need a multi-faceted approach because our sources are extremely disparate, have come down to us in very…
Deconstructing Imperial Representation
What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits. Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suet…
Die Stimme in der antiken Rhetorik
English summary: Even though the interest in rhetoric does still not recline today and even though the orator's performance was considered the most important element of oratory in antiquity, there has been no detailed piece of research on the voice of the orator in ancient rhetoric so far. This book aims at closing this gap. To achieve this, we need a multi-faceted approach because our sources are extremely disparate, have come down to us in very…
Kalkuliertes Missverstehen
The communication processes between princeps and the Roman upper class, which Tacitus presents in his Annales, run strikingly counter to any model of communication based on understanding and to Grice’s conversational maxims. They can be described, instead, through two levels of communication in which certain contents are intended to be concealed and not understood. On one level, visible from the outside, the communicators allow signs to appear th…
Historiography and Panegyric
Historiographical discourse reacts to panegyrical accounts of imperial representation. In the case of eccentric emperors who are praised during their lifetime but criticised post mortem, historiographers aim to deconstruct former positive descriptions in their works. This chapter explores the deconstruction of imperial representation in Cassius Dio through the example of Domitian. After (1) introductory remarks about the relation of panegyrical a…
Defining the Good Ruler
Three Modes of Deconstruction
Material to Remember
This paper discusses how the space designed by ‘bad’ emperors such as Nero and Domitian is described in Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius. It argues that these authors use space to depict these emperors as tyrants. First, we will study how Roman emperors use space to fashion their memory. Their design of space is subject to interpretation, in particular as regards Roman emperors who were praised during their lifetime, but were considered tyrant…
Deconstructing Imperial Representation
What literary strategies do Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius apply in portraying Nero and Domitian? This book argues that the three authors respond to and deconstruct the positive accounts of imperial representation that were prevalent during the lifetimes of the two controversial emperors. They take up motifs from these earlier accounts, which they re-interpret to construct their own negative portraits. Although Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suet…
While Rome Burned
342 PHOENIX ideal (cf. the caption at 147, 157–160; 234–239), the latter demonstrating moral progress as sexual violence is no longer used. I also find many of Hösle’s thematic analyses in the last parts of the book convincing, for example, that of the love-triangles in Book 13 and 14, the metapoetic quality of the “female Orpheus” (“weiblicher Orpheus”) Canens as an example of “progress” brought about by Italy (“auch dies ein Fortschritt Italien…
Formen des Vergessens bei Tacitus
Tacitus understands himself as a historiographer who writes against forgetting. This essay examines how Tacitus conceives of forgetting and how he depicts processes of forgetting. (1) First I will introduce forgetting as an important research theme in modern memory studies. Research on forgetting can help us to understand transformations in the collective memory of modern and ancient social groups. (2) In Tacitus’ works about Roman imperial histo…
Expressing Contempt in Rome—Language, Rhetoric, and Critique
This article presents three brief case studies of the way Romans talked about and expressed contempt. It examines aspects of discourses about contempt that are characteristic both of Roman literature and of modern concepts. The focus is on the relationship of hierarchy, recognition, and (active and passive) contempt in the Latin vocabulary and in two literary motifs taken from invective and historiography, two genres in which expressions of conte…
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