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    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    gbv_646770462
    Format: Online-Ressource (xi, 231 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    ISBN: 0520236505
    Series Statement: The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
    Content: A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories, this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire.Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about the imaginary picture that imperial society makes of these concrete conditions of existence-the "making up and believing" that figure in both the subjective shaping of reality and the objective interpretation of it. Haynes traces Tacitus's development of this fingere/credere dynamic both backward and fo
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index , Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: BELIEF AND MAKE-BELIEVE; 1. AN ANATOMY OF MAKE-BELIEVE; Otho Bids Rome Farewell; Fingere/Credere; The Empire of the Cave; Historiography and Ideology; 2. NERO: THE SPECTER OF CIVIL WAR; Galba versus Nero; The Adoption of Piso; Nero and Otho; 3. POWER AND SIMULACRA: THE EMPEROR VITELLIUS; The Look of the Principate; Impersonations; Simulacral Entries . . . and Exits; 4. VESPASIAN: THE EMPEROR WHO SUCCEEDED; Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Religio versus Superstitio; Fortuna and Fatum: The Narrative of Superstitio; The Miracle at Alexandria , 5. A CIVIL DISTURBANCE: THE BATAVIAN REVOLTS"Us" versus "Them"; Eprius Marcellus and Petilius Cerialis on Libertas at Home and Abroad; Batavians Take Out the Roman Trash; CONCLUSION; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780520236509
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The History of Make-Believe : Tacitus on Imperial Rome
    Language: English
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