Readership and Reading Practices of Ancient History in the Early Roman Empire: Tacitus’ Accessions of Tiberius and Nero as a Case Study in Affective Historiography

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Sallust, the lector eruditus and the Purposes of History 13
6. The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the First Century BCE in Light of Geographical Descriptions 35
7. Livy, the Reader Involved, and the Audience of Roman Historiography 59
8. From ἐξήγησις to μίμησις: Thucydides’ Readership in the ὑπομνήματα from the Roman Period 79
9. Historiography in the Margins and the Reader as a Touchstone 115
10. A History in Letters? The Intersection of Epistolarity and Historiography in Pliny 131
11. Readership and Reading Practices of Ancient History in the Early Roman Empire: Tacitus’ Accessions of Tiberius and Nero as a Case Study in Affective Historiography 149
12. Reading Spaces, Observing Spectators in Tacitus’ Histories 175
13. How to Satisfy Everyone: Diverse Readerly Expectations and Multiple Authorial Personae in Arrian’s Anabasis 193
14. Multiple Authors and Puzzled Readers in the Historia Augusta 223
15. Index locorum 251
16. Index nominum et rerum 261