Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 182 من الصفحات |
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... happens to Vitellius , and it happens again when Paetus refuses to speak in the senate and finally walks out , in effect voiding official political discourse as such ( Ann . 14.12.1 ) . The anecdote about Caligula's appointment of his ...
... happens to Vitellius , and it happens again when Paetus refuses to speak in the senate and finally walks out , in effect voiding official political discourse as such ( Ann . 14.12.1 ) . The anecdote about Caligula's appointment of his ...
الصفحة 120
... happens with great lies , some swore that they were eyewitnesses [ to what had never happened ] ” ( Hist . 1.34.2 ) . This is halfway between mendacity and illusion , and Tacitus detects the same quality again in the exploits of the ...
... happens with great lies , some swore that they were eyewitnesses [ to what had never happened ] ” ( Hist . 1.34.2 ) . This is halfway between mendacity and illusion , and Tacitus detects the same quality again in the exploits of the ...
الصفحة 125
... happens during this period is , in the final analysis , completely useless . . . . One sees then that civil wars are absurd wars in which things lose their sense ; they breed each other and in this way are always their own negation.39 ...
... happens during this period is , in the final analysis , completely useless . . . . One sees then that civil wars are absurd wars in which things lose their sense ; they breed each other and in this way are always their own negation.39 ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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