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Tacitus' Wonders - Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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Tacitus' Wonders - Empire and Paradox in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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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 attention paid
to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy
of note have often differed in interesting ways from the
preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for
this complementary perspective. Scholarship on Tacitus has to date
remained largely marked by a divide between the search for veracity
- as validated by modern historiographical standards - and literary
approaches, and as a result wonders have either been ignored as
unfit for an account of history or have been deprived of their
force by being interpreted as valid only within the text. While the
modern ideal of historiographical objectivity tends to result in
striving for consistent heuristic and methodological frameworks,
works as varied as Tacitus' Histories, Annals and opera minora can
hardly be prefaced with a statement of methodology broad enough to
escape misrepresenting their diversity. In our age of
specialization a streamlined methodological framework is a virtue,
but it should not be assumed that Tacitus had similar priorities,
and indeed the Histories and Annals deserve to be approached with
openness towards the variety of perspectives that a tradition as
rich as Latin historiographical prose can include within its scope.
This collection proposes ways to reconcile the divide between
history and historiography by exploring contestable moments in the
text that challenge readers to judge and interpret for themselves,
with individual chapters drawing on a range of interpretive
approaches that mirror the wealth of authorial and reader-specific
responses in play.
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