Deconstructing Imperial Representation

Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Suetonius on Nero and Domitian

Bibliographic Data

ID9290893
AuthorsVerena Schulz (0000-0002-4530-0387, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-06-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDeconstructing Imperial Representation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004407558
OpenAlexW2976842205
ISBN9789004407558
Google Books4MuiDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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 Suetonius discuss the same historical figures and events of early imperial Rome, they are rarely examined together in one volume. Verena Schulz offers the first combined reading of their works from a philological viewpoint, analysing the various rhetorical techniques and narratological devices that they display, and the different literary and historical discourses in which they are embedded

Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Portrait · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical question · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy

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