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 66
... death , though Nero graciously intervenes to permit them free choice of the manner of death . The possibility of trial in the case of treason even for those who had committed suicide does not lessen the absurdity that Tacitus ' account ...
... death , though Nero graciously intervenes to permit them free choice of the manner of death . The possibility of trial in the case of treason even for those who had committed suicide does not lessen the absurdity that Tacitus ' account ...
الصفحة 67
... death was that they had made their house available for meetings of Mnester and Poppaea . But what they were charged with was a dream which occurred in the dead of night [ and which was taken to portend trouble or death for Claudius ] ...
... death was that they had made their house available for meetings of Mnester and Poppaea . But what they were charged with was a dream which occurred in the dead of night [ and which was taken to portend trouble or death for Claudius ] ...
الصفحة 130
... death , and , moreover , standing beneath the gallows , should be able to think of nothing but what he has heard at funerals all his life . 50 The reference is to the " grotesque silliness " of Eichmann's last words : after declaring ...
... death , and , moreover , standing beneath the gallows , should be able to think of nothing but what he has heard at funerals all his life . 50 The reference is to the " grotesque silliness " of Eichmann's last words : after declaring ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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