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Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus
Emma Warhover’s Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus explores how the ancient Roman historian Tacitus incorporated humor into his historical works, and unveils the significance of these humorous motifs. Since the historian is one of the most important ancient sources on Rome’s emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, readers of Tacitus have long been challenged by his purposely opaque style, full of unbalanced grammatical constructions and end-of-the-sentence surprises. Tacitus’ strange prose style reflects the remarkable times about which he writes, when emperors made bizarre and contradictory demands on their subjects and told obvious lies to cover up the cruelty of their regimes. ...
Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus
Emma Warhover's Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus explores how the ancient Roman historian Tacitus incorporated humor into his historical works and unveil the significance of these humorous motifs. Since the historian was one of the most important ancient sources on Rome's emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, readers of Tacitus have long been challenged by his purposely opaque style, full of unbalanced grammatical constructions and end-of-the-sentence surprises. Tacitus' strange prose style reflects the remarkable times about which he writes, when emperors made bizarre and contradictory demands on their subjects and told obvious lies to cover up the cruelty of their regimes. In seri...
The Coloradan
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