Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 182 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 31
... authority to prevent crime being as legiti- mate as " authority " to order it is " funny . " This epigram on Otho is echoed in a parallel epigram ( Hist . 3.25.3 ) : “ they call the deed crime and - do it . ” The parody of " authority ...
... authority to prevent crime being as legiti- mate as " authority " to order it is " funny . " This epigram on Otho is echoed in a parallel epigram ( Hist . 3.25.3 ) : “ they call the deed crime and - do it . ” The parody of " authority ...
الصفحة 118
... authority be spoken of only in modest terms ( 27 ) . Yet the complicated dialectic of power turns genuine forebearance also into hypocrisy . For though he patiently endured ugly rumors or abuse because ( he said ) in a free state speech ...
... authority be spoken of only in modest terms ( 27 ) . Yet the complicated dialectic of power turns genuine forebearance also into hypocrisy . For though he patiently endured ugly rumors or abuse because ( he said ) in a free state speech ...
الصفحة 141
... authority shows its impotence precisely when it shows its power : its power by giving permission , its impotence by not being able to make it permissible " ( Concluding Unscientific Postscript , tran . D. Swan- son and W. Lowrie ...
... authority shows its impotence precisely when it shows its power : its power by giving permission , its impotence by not being able to make it permissible " ( Concluding Unscientific Postscript , tran . D. Swan- son and W. Lowrie ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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