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This study examines how Tacitus' representation of speech
determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and
explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the
principate. It argues against the traditional scholarly view that
Tacitus refuses to offer a positive view of senatorial power in the
principate: while senators did experience limitations and changes
to what they could achieve in public life, they could aim to create
a dimension of political power and efficacy through speeches
intended to create and sustain relations which would in turn
determine the roles played by both senators or an emperor. Ellen
O'Gorman traces Tacitus' own charting of these modes of speech,
from flattery and aggression to advice, praise, and censure, and
explores how different modes of speech in his histories should be
evaluated: not according to how they conform to pre-existing
political stances, but as they engender different political worlds
in the present and future. The volume goes beyond literary analysis
of the texts to create a new framework for studying this essential
period in ancient Roman history, much in the same way that Tacitus
himself recasts the political authority and presence of senatorial
speakers as narrative and historical analysis.
This book is a literary analysis of the language and style of Tacitus' Annals. The political context of first-second century AD Rome is also taken into consideration. In analysis of particular passages close attention is given to the structure of the Latin, which is fully translated. Issues relating to the study of narrative, Roman politics and theories of history are addressed in the course of the discussion.
Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and
utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his developing
ideas about the psycho-sexual development of children, it has been
virtually impossible to think about psychoanalysis without
reference to classical myth. Myth has the capacity to transcend the
context of any particular retelling, continuing to transform our
understanding of the present. Throughout the twentieth century,
experts on the ancient world have turned to the insights of
psychoanalytic criticism to supplement and inform their readings of
classical myth and literature.
This volume examines the inter-relationship of classical myth and
psychoanalysis from the generation before Freud to the present day,
engaging with debates about the role of classical myth in
modernity, the importance of psychoanalytic ideas for cultural
critique, and its ongoing relevance to ways of conceiving the self.
The chapters trace the historical roots of terms in everyday usage,
such as narcissism and the phallic symbol, in the reception of
Classical Greece, and cover a variety of both classical and
psychoanalytic texts.
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the
Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Histories Book I
sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12-14, 17-23 and 26, and the
A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Histories Book I sections 27-36,
39-44 and 49, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,
with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed text
to be read in English for A Level. Histories I starts in AD 69,
during the civil war after the death of Nero. Tacitus describes the
unstable conditions in the Roman Empire, as different generals are
elevated by their soldiers to the position of emperor. In the
prescribed selection, rebellion and violence break out in the city
of Rome, as the Praetorian Guard of the emperor Galba transfer
their support to a controversial younger man, Otho. Tacitus vividly
portrays the elderly Galba's attempts to maintain order and
discipline as power slips from his grasp, while Otho inspires the
disorderly soldiers, keeping control only with difficulty over this
volatile group of men. Resources are available on the Companion
Website www.bloomsbury.com/ocr-editions-2019-2021
This study examines how Tacitus’ representation of speech
determines the roles of speakers within the political sphere, and
explores the possibility of politically effective speech in the
principate. It argues against the traditional scholarly view that
Tacitus refuses to offer a positive view of senatorial power in the
principate: while senators did experience limitations and changes
to what they could achieve in public life, they could aim to create
a dimension of political power and efficacy through speeches
intended to create and sustain relations which would in turn
determine the roles played by both senators or an emperor. Ellen
O’Gorman traces Tacitus’ own charting of these modes of speech,
from flattery and aggression to advice, praise, and censure, and
explores how different modes of speech in his histories should be
evaluated: not according to how they conform to pre-existing
political stances, but as they engender different political worlds
in the present and future. The volume goes beyond literary analysis
of the texts to create a new framework for studying this essential
period in ancient Roman history, much in the same way that Tacitus
himself recasts the political authority and presence of senatorial
speakers as narrative and historical analysis.
This 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of
Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which
characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing
the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture,
writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus
obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican
structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues
that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by
Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of
the political regime it represents. The strain on language and
meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives
voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must
respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.
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