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, 2022 This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little ...
Pagán, Victoria Emma +1 more
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Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger
Classica Cracoviensia, 2015 Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger The paper provides a (far from exhaustive) overview of references found in Tacitus’ historical works (Annales, Historiae, Agricola) and in Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae to people who may be defined ...
Jakub Pigoń
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Shannon-Henderson, K.E. (2019). Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2020 SHANNON - HENDERSON , KELLY E. (2019). Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 414 pp., 88,02€ [ISBN 978-0-1988-3276-8] [Book review]
James McNamara
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‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 446-461, November 2025.Summary For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre‐Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The second‐century BC astronomer Hipparchus quotes Pytheas (c. 320 BC) as having referred to Britons as ‘Keltoi’.
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Cognitive Theories of Galant Music at the Margins of Experience
Music Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 293-339, October 2025.ABSTRACT Leading cognitive studies of galant music treat schematism as both a device and an ethos. The devices – whether called pre‐fabs, tiles or schemata – undergird a mechanistic and passive ethos of inventiveness. In vision and practice, this constellation of approaches directs inquiry away from a musical depth that one contemplates and towards a ...
Edmund J. Goehring
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, 2017 Book XVI of Tacitus\u27 Annals is the last of the surviving books of the great Roman historian\u27s monumental account of the reigns of the emperors from Tiberius to Nero.
Fratantuono, Lee M., Tacitus
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Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2019 This paper reviews the war of Tacfarinas in the North of Africa during the government of the emperor Tiberius (17-24 AC), in order to understand his causes and consequences for Roman policy.
Noelia CASES MORA
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 319-337, September 2025.ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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Enthymema, 2014 Il presente articolo si propone come un lavoro di analisi comparativa tra la cronaca Annali (Annales-Ab excessu divi Augusti) di Publio Cornelio Tacito e il romanzo I demòni (Besy) di F.M.
Alessandra Elisa Visinoni
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Formen des Vergessens bei Tacitus [PDF]
, 2020 Tacitus understands himself as a historiographer who writes against forgetting. This essay examines how Tacitus conceives of forgetting and how he depicts processes of forgetting.
Schulz, Verena
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