Actors in the Audience

Actors in the Audience Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian

Tacitus, Suetonius, and Juvenal all figure in Bartsch's shrewd analysis of historical and literary responses to the brute facts of empire; even the Panegyricus of Pliny the Younger now appears as a reaction against the widespread awareness of dissimulation.
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