دانلود کتاب Tacitus’ Wonders: Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome

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Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes
References
Part One Paradoxography and Wonder
1 Tacitus and Paradoxography
Defining the marvellous from Callimachus to Tacitus
Truth, falsehood, causes and the paradoxographer-historian’s method
Ours not to reason why: Correcting without explaining
Of monsters and miracles: When explanation fails
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
2 Beyond ira and studium Tacitus and the Hellenistic Anxiety About Wonder
The dangers of wonder
The attraction of wonder
The lessons of wonder
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
3 Wonderment in Aper’s Second Speech in Tacitus’ Dialogus de oratoribus
Notes
References
4 Laus eloquentiae and fama rerum The Paradox of the Socially Marvellous in Tacitus’ Dialogus and Agricola
Wonders in the Dialogus?
The socially marvellous in the Dialogus
Wonders in the Agricola?
The socially marvellous in the Agricola
The paradox of the socially marvellous
Appendix 1: Wonderful women in the Agricola and Dialogus
Appendix 2: Social wonders in the Germania
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Part Two Interpreting Wonders
5 Marvellous Predictions Wonders as Metahistory in Annals 6
The False Drusus
Astrology and historiography
The return of the phoenix
Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Prodigiosum dictu Interpreting Signs and Oracles in Tacitus’ Histories
The religious failings of Otho’s populism
Vitellius and the absence of leadership
Fortuna and fortuita: Titus at the oracle of Paphian Venus
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Interpreting Wonders in the Agricola and Germania
Agricola
Germania
Ethnographic wonders: Redirection and irony
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Part Three The Principate as Object of Wonder
8 qualem diem Tiberius induisset Tiberius’ Absences on Capri as an Inspiration for Wonder and Uncertainty
Tiberius the enigma
Anecdotal and paradoxographical emperors
Tiberius the wondrous
Conclusion
Notes
References
9 Tacitus’ Tragic Touch Vespasian’s Healing Miracles at Histories 4.81–83
The healing miracles
The visit to the temple of ‘Serapis’
The origins of ‘Serapis’
Athenian tragedy becomes Roman history
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
10 Tacitus’ Ordinary Wonders
The wondrous
The ordinary
Conclusions
Notes
References
Index of Latin Terms
Index of Greek Terms
Index of Passages Cited
Index of Names
General Index