Tacitus' History of Politically Effective Speech

Preface

Introduction
Imperial Regimes of Truth
Senatorial Business
Entering the Archive

Modes of Speech

1. Turpe servitium: The Political World of Flattery
The Agency of adulatio
The Art of adulatio
Adulatio and honor

2. Pro incolumitate principis / ex calamitate civium: The Political World of Predatory Accusation
Delatio, maiestas, and Distributed Agency
Majesty and Harm: The World of maiestas
The Speech of delatio

3. Servitium rupit: Counter-Speech
in adulationem lapsos cohibebat
de praemiis accusatorum abolendis

The Critical Archive

4. Existimatio vitae: The Judgement of Character
Emotion, Speech, and Moral Principle
The Critical Archive of Character

5. Narratus et traditus: The Transmission of mores
Genealogies of Practice
Future Communities
Conclusion: sententia

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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• Historiografia
• Textos clássicos
• História antiga: a c 500 CE