The Nameless Crowds
Using Quantitative Data and Digital Tools to Study the Ancient Vocabulary of the Crowd in Tacitus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9306698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Louis Autin (0000-0002-1716-1236, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-73 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Digital History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2747-5271 • E-ISSN: 2747-5271 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/jdh-2021-1000 |
| OpenAlex | W4285370662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
paper investigates from a lexicological and socio-historical perspective the vocabulary of the crowd in Tacitus, a Roman historian of the 1st-2nd century AD. Unlike most Latin authors, Tacitus uses predominantly the word vulgus in comparison to turba, multitudo and the other nouns referring to urban and military crowds. The singularity Journal of Digital History ability to vocalize its own feelings and opinion and to engage in dialogue, or even con ict, with the ruling elites. The vulgus thus seems to become, in Tacitus' narrative, a new political actor of the imperial regime. Contrary to the institutional populus, the vulgus as political actor does not express its opinion through the ordinary political institutions that were traditionally controlled by the Roman aristocracy (the comitia for instance), but proceeds to do so through vocalizations in noninstitutional (albeit deeply political) contexts
Crowds · Data science · Information retrieval · Linguistics · Vocabulary · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |