Tacitus' Annals. - MELLOR, R.,
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The third chapter is one of the most useful for the intended audience of the book, especially since there is no comparable treatment for non-specialists in other books on Tacitus. Mellor explains Tacitus? (and, more broadly, Roman) attitudes towards different ethnic groups, barbarians of the west (Germans, Gauls, and Britons) and Easterners (mostly Greeks and Jews), supporting his account with appropriate passages from Tacitus? output. Tacitus? xenophobia, Mellor argues, was not driven by hatred for any special group (certainly he was not anti-Semitic): his prejudices are in line with widespread ancient feelings for the other. Tacitus had understood the dangerous influences from the outside, and his extreme hostility towards the Greeks, Mellor suggests, was a result of the perverse hellenization The best chapter of the book is surely the fourth. Mellor challenges the traditional view of Tacitus as 'the greatest painter of antiquity'. Tacitus, Mellor suggests, certainly displays vividness in his descriptions, ...
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2010Uitgever: Oxford University Press176 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0195151933ISBN-13: 9780195151930Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Oxford / New York, 2011. XIV,255p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: MELLOR, R.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: Tacitus' Annals.]
