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Greece and Rome, 1960
It is now generally acknowledged that in the concluding chapters of the Agricola Tacitus is on several occasions guilty of distortion of the truth. The story told in 40. 2, for example, of the secret mission of one of Domitian's confidential freedmen with an offer of the governorship of Syria as a bribe to Agricola in case he should appear reluctant to
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It is now generally acknowledged that in the concluding chapters of the Agricola Tacitus is on several occasions guilty of distortion of the truth. The story told in 40. 2, for example, of the secret mission of one of Domitian's confidential freedmen with an offer of the governorship of Syria as a bribe to Agricola in case he should appear reluctant to
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Greece and Rome, 2006
The historicity of the ‘Gallic Emperor' Domitianus has long been disputed, but two quite separate events in 2003 have now provided incontrovertible confirmation of his existence. The first was the rediscovery in the collections of the Musée Dobrée in Nantes of what had been for a century the only known coin carrying the obverse legend IMP(ERATOR) C ...
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The historicity of the ‘Gallic Emperor' Domitianus has long been disputed, but two quite separate events in 2003 have now provided incontrovertible confirmation of his existence. The first was the rediscovery in the collections of the Musée Dobrée in Nantes of what had been for a century the only known coin carrying the obverse legend IMP(ERATOR) C ...
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Phoenix, 1964
ONE OF THE MOST persistent traits of human thought is the categorizing of individuals (and institutions) into "good" and "bad." Now while this is to be expected from that class of students of history so brilliantly satirized by Sellars and Yeatman, scholars, ancient or modern, should be able to free themselves from its grip.
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ONE OF THE MOST persistent traits of human thought is the categorizing of individuals (and institutions) into "good" and "bad." Now while this is to be expected from that class of students of history so brilliantly satirized by Sellars and Yeatman, scholars, ancient or modern, should be able to free themselves from its grip.
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The Ivy and the Conquering Bay: Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy
2009Few modern readers of the Institutio Oratoria , have been satisfied by the sincerity of Quintilian's appraisal of Domitian. Somehow the "invariably manly, honourable, and straightforward" voice adopted throughout the treatise seems inherently alien to the easy hyperbole of the rhetorician's thumb-sketches of his emperor.
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2014
Nero und Domitian, die bis heute nicht nur in der Populärkultur als mali principes gelten, sind bislang zumeist einzeln oder im Kontext ihrer eigenen Dynastien untersucht worden. Dieser Band unternimmt erstmals den Versuch, die Herrscherrepräsentation beider Kaiser im Vergleich zu analysieren.
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Nero und Domitian, die bis heute nicht nur in der Populärkultur als mali principes gelten, sind bislang zumeist einzeln oder im Kontext ihrer eigenen Dynastien untersucht worden. Dieser Band unternimmt erstmals den Versuch, die Herrscherrepräsentation beider Kaiser im Vergleich zu analysieren.
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2020
Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 153 (1953): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in ...
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Bonner Jahrbücher, Bd. 153 (1953): Bonner Jahrbücher des Vereins von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande und des Rheinischen Provinzialmuseums in ...
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