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Tiberius and his age : myth, sex, luxury, and power

Edward Champlin ; edited by Robert A. Kaster ; : hardback. -- Princeton University Press, 2024. <BB30366228>
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標題および責任表示 Tiberius and his age : myth, sex, luxury, and power / Edward Champlin ; edited by Robert A. Kaster
出版・頒布事項 Princeton : Princeton University Press , c2024
形態事項 xvi, 269 p. ; 25 cm
巻号情報
巻次等 : hardback
ISBN 9780691139241
内容著作注記 Tiberius the wise
内容著作注記 Tiberius and the heavenly twins
内容著作注記 The odyssey of Tiberius Caesar
内容著作注記 The death of the phoenix
内容著作注記 Sex on Capri
内容著作注記 Mallonia
内容著作注記 Asellius Sabinus: culture, wit, and power in the golden age of gastronomy
内容著作注記 Marcus Apicius: a sense of place
内容著作注記 Seianus Augustus
内容著作注記 Notes
内容著作注記 Bibliography
内容著作注記 Index
注記 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index
注記 Summary:"As any reader of Tacitus' Annals or Suetonius' biographies knows, Rome's second emperor was a mere hypocrite when he was not a thoroughgoing villain-treacherous, grasping, depraved, and vindictive. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin develops the overlapping themes of luxury, sex, power, and, especially, myth to show that the man was-and was seen by contemporaries to be-a far more complex and recognizable human being than the villainous hypocrite of hostile tradition. As worthy successors to the landmark Nero, the nine studies gathered here draw on vast amounts and diverse kinds of evidence, much of which will be unknown even to specialists, to present lucid arguments and startling new perspectives on Tiberius and the culture of his times. The first four chapters survey Tiberius's standing as a figure out of folkore in the popular imagination and his own quite conscious use of themes from myth to consolidate his power. The next two chapters show how striking but ultimately incoherent fiction
注記 Summary:"A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperor Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite-treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was-and was seen by contemporaries to be-recognizably human and far more complex than the monster of the hostile tradition that began with Tacitus and Suetonius. Focusing on the overlapping themes of luxury, sex, power, and, especially, myth, Tiberius and His Age examines Tiberius's standing as a folkloric figure in the Roman popular imagination and his conscious use of mythological themes to consolidate his power. It argues that the striking stories of Tiberius's sexual depravity, which literary sources passed on to later generations, are ultimately incoherent fictions, the work of a brilliant fantasist who hated the emperor. The book's portraits of three important figures in Tiberius's circle-the g
学情ID BD06222962
本文言語コード 英語
著者標目リンク *Champlin, Edward, 1948- <AU10185235>
著者標目リンク Kaster, Robert A. <AU10185236>
分類標目 LCC:DG282
分類標目 DC23:937/.06092
件名標目等 Tiberius Emperor of Rome, 42 B.C.-37 A.D
件名標目等 Emperors -- Rome -- Biography
件名標目等 Rome -- History -- Tiberius, 14-37