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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"imperial literature"”.
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Roman Nostalgia Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature
<p>This dissertation treats the nostalgic Roman conception of the heroic Republican past, as expressed in four exemplary figures: Camillus, Regulus, Scipio Africanus, and Cato the Younger. The project is aimed at explicating the often neglected affective component of the Roman process of identity …
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
… the most prolific and versatile writers of Greek imperial literature. It argues that imperial, and in particular Lucianic, ecphrasis (a vivid style of descriptive writing which aims to bring its subject matter ‘before the eyes of the reader’) might be better understood from the point of view of …
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Inimicitiae in Tacitus
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Into the snake pit: Heliodorus's Aethiopica and cognitive pluralism
… what I call ‘cognitive identities’ of the late imperial era—by which I mean those elements of social identity that concern methods of information processing. To conclude, my thesis aims to achieve something that has all too often remained an unfulfilled promise in narratologically oriented …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her victims. These victims are often children or young men, who may be eaten or killed so …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
… magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her victims. These victims are often children or young men, who may be eaten or killed so …