Search for dissertations about: "Tacitus"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word Tacitus.
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1. Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales : A Contextual Analysis
Abstract : The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). READ MORE
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2. Imperial Freedmen and Roman Society : A study on the social standing of imperial freedmen as expressed in literary and epigraphic sources in the early Roman Empire
Abstract : This study discusses the imperial freedmen’s standing in Roman society as it is expressed in literary and epigraphic sources. It has often been assumed that the traditional elite had a general negative attitude towards this group, and previous scholars have interpreted the social standing of the imperial freedmen very differently due to the discrepancy between the legal status and the social status of these freedmen. READ MORE
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3. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture
Abstract : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. READ MORE