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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Domitian"”.
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… to what purpose, and to what effect, the emperor Domitian (81-96) was remembered during the reign of his successors Nerva (96-98) and Trajan (98-117). Its aims are to address the – still controversial – question why Domitian suffers from such a bad reputation; to cast a new angle on the debate …
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
… as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual analysis of instances wherein monsters adjoin the dynamics of otherness, literary tradition, mytho-historical past and imperial ideology. I begin with a discussion of Statius’ potential …
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Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors
… political career under the tyrannical reign of Domitian and his praise of Trajan's moderation in the Panegyricus. Pliny exhibits signs of insincerity in his panegyric that resemble the methods of doublespeak used earlier by Horace, Ovid, and Statius. Pliny's false praise of Trajan's moderation …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… of the Flavian emperors-Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian-individually, this study seeks to explore the nature of these relationships more comprehensively than has been done in the past. This aim of comprehensiveness is achieved in part by beginning not with Josephus' arrival in Rome in AD 71, but …
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Religion, society, and politics, and the Liber Vitae of Durham
… Vitae of Durham (London, British Library, Cotton Domitian VII). This is a list of names of those who were remembered in the liturgy and prayers of the community of St. Cuthbert, who were resident at Lindisfarne at the time when the greater part of the list was written. The aim of this thesis is to …
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Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica
… prominent poets like Ovid and even emperors like Domitian, and in the Satyrica we see the importance of hair and appearance for art and social standing reflected. The thesis begins with a survey of important literary figures that Petronius drew upon, including Homer, Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, and …
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Assessment of Motivation Level Among Primary Health Care Workers in Tanzania : A Case Study of Muhimbili National Hospital
The main objective of this study was to assess the motivation level among primary health care workers in Tanzania and hence match the motivators with the implementation of performance management in the workplace. The specific objectives were: to identify levels of work motivation of workers, to …
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Poetry & patronage in the early imperial era : through the eyes of martial
… specific conditions of literary patronage during Domitian' s reign. With the necessary framework in place, I consider the possible function of his epigrams in the context of his pursuit of imperial patronage. Some controversial Vl interpretations of such poems see in them veiled and ambiguous …
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The huge delusion: a study of the young emperors and Roman historians
… have chosen six young emperors (Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla, and Elagabalus) and attempted to consider the association of youth, authority, and madness by a thorough examination of ideology and events. To that end, I have treated alternative <em>scenarii</em> with the requisite …
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Nature, imperialism, and the ethics of war in Flavian epic
This dissertation argues that Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Silius Italicus’ Punica, and Papinius Statius’ Thebaid use human encounters with nature to reflect on the morality of their poems’ central characters. Interactions and conflicts with nature occur at programmatic points in the poems, …