Religion and memory in Tacitus' Annals / Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson.

Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor impor...

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Main Author: Shannon-Henderson, Kelly E., 1985- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Religion, memory, and Tacitus -- 1. Tiberius the autocrat -- 2. Germanicus as religious interpreter -- 3. Memory and forgetting from the death of Germanicus to the rise of Sejanus -- 4. Divine wrath and Annals 4 -- 5. Fate, astrology, and the end of life -- 6. Claudius and the failure of tradition -- 7. Nero: A narrative in prodigies -- Conclusions. 
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