Tragedy, rhetoric, and the historiography of Tacitus' Annales /
[Book]
Francesca Santoro L'Hoir
Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
c2006
viii, 401 p. ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and indexes
Pt. 1. Connotations -- 1. Tacitus and the 'theatrical paradigm" -- 2. Tacitus and Aristotle's Poetics of tragedy -- Pt. 2. Transgressions -- 3. Muliebris Impotentia: The paths to power -- 4. The adulteress-poisoner : a presumption of guilt -- Pt. 3. Boundaries -- 5. The stagecraft of Tacitus