TY - BOOK ED - McNamara, James ED - Pagán, Victoria Emma T1 - Tacitus' Wonders BT - empire and paradox in ancient Rome N2 - This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have often differed in interesting ways from the preoccupations of his readers, is a fascinating focal point for this complementary perspective. Scholarship on Tacitus has to date remained largely marked by a divide between the search for veracity – as validated by modern historiographical standards – and literary approaches, and as a result wonders have either been ignored as unfit for an account of history or have been deprived of their force by being interpreted as valid only within the text. While the modern ideal of historiographical objectivity tends to result in striving for consistent heuristic and methodological frameworks, works as varied as Tacitus' Histories, Annals and opera minora can hardly be prefaced with a statement of methodology broad enough to escape misrepresenting their diversity. In our age of specialization a streamlined methodological framework is a virtue, but it should not be assumed that Tacitus had similar priorities, and indeed the Histories and Annals deserve to be approached with openness towards the variety of perspectives that a tradition as rich as Latin historiographical prose can include within its scope. This collection proposes ways to reconcile the divide between history and historiography by exploring contestable moments in the text that challenge readers to judge and interpret for themselves, with individual chapters drawing on a range of interpretive approaches that mirror the wealth of authorial and reader-specific responses in play. KW - Tacitus KW - Paradoxography KW - Historiography KW - Ancient Rome KW - Latin literature KW - Paradoxographie KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Alte Geschichte KW - Lateinische Literatur Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-350-24172-5 SN - 978-1-350-24175-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350241763 PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - BOOK ED - Gärtner, Ursula T1 - Brandenburger Antike-Denkwerk : o tempora, o mores ; Relevanz und Relativierung von Wertbegriffen N2 - Im September 2008 fand der 4. Potsdamer Lateintag statt. Er war Bestandteil des auf drei Jahre angelegten Brandenburger Antike-Denkwerks (BrAnD), das von der Robert Bosch Stiftung gefördert wurde. Der Band versammelt die Vorträge des Lateintags von Frau Prof. Dr. Chr. Kunst und Herrn Prof. Dr. M. Janka sowie eine Auswahl der Berichte zu den Schulprojekten. N2 - In September 2008 the ‚Potsdamer Lateintag‘ took place for the fourth time. At the same time the second topic of the ‚Brandenburger Antike-Denkwerk‘, a project funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation, was presented: “o tempora. o mores. Relevance and relativity of values”. Nowadays, when the discussion ofmoral values has become relevant again, one is often looking at values of the ancient world but without thorough examination. In an attempt to differentiate themselves from other cultures or political/social systems politicians and social scientists go back to the common intellectual and cultural history of Europe. In this project the distinctivenessof the Roman values was to be examined: What was the meaning of the so called mos maiorum? How could these values be passed on over such a long time? How did they ‚work‘? What was the reason for the much lamented decline of the values in the late republic? Can we even compare these values with ours? In this volume you can find the lectures from the Lateintag given by Prof. Dr. Chr. Kunst and Prof. Dr. M. Janka as well as reports on the whole project and on some of the schoolprojects. T3 - Potsdamer Lateintage - 4 KW - Latein KW - Fachdidaktik Latein KW - Alte Geschichte KW - Römische Werte KW - Potsdamer Lateintag KW - Brandenburger Antike-Denkwerk KW - Latin KW - Methods of Teaching Latin KW - Ancient History KW - Roman Values Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57612 SN - 978-3-86956-183-7 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -