Tacitus' wonders : empire and paradox in ancient Rome /: empire and paradox in ancient Rome. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James McNamara and Victoria Emma Pagán.
• Editors: (Classicist), McNamara, James; Pagan, Victoria Emma, 1965-
• Contents: Notes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction (James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany and Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA)Part 1: Tacitus and Paradoxography1. Tacitus and Paradoxography (Kelly Shannon-Henderson, University of Alabama, USA)2. Beyond Ira and Studium: Tacitus and the Hellenistic Anxiety about Wonder (Rik Peters, University of Chicago, USA)3. Wonderment in Aper's Second Speech in Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus (Art Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ) 4. Laus eloquentiae and fama rerum: The paradox of the socially marvellous in Tacitus' Dialogus and Agricola(Brandon Jones, Boston University, USA)Part 2: Interpreting Wonders 5. Marvellous Predictions: Wonders as Metahistory in Annals 6 (George Baroud, Emerson College, USA) 6. Prodigiosum Dictu: Interpreting Signs and Oracles in Tacitus' Histories (Callum Aldiss, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 7. Interpreting wonders in the Agricola and Germania (James McNamara, University of Potsdam, Germany) Part 3: The Principate as Object of Wonder 8. qualem diem Tiberius induisset: Tiberius' Absences on Capri as an Inspiration for onder and Uncertainty (Panayiotis Christoforou, University of Oxford, UK) 9. Tacitus' Tragic Touch: Vespasian' Healing Miracles at Histories 4.81-3 (Holly Haynes, The College of New Jersey, USA) 10. Tacitus' Ordinary Wonders (Victoria Emma Pagán, University of Florida, USA) Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 937.07092; Wonder in literature; Rome -- Historiography; Rome -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350241756
• Related ISBNs: 9781350241725
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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