The History of Make-Believe: Tacitus on Imperial Rome

by Holly Haynes

A theoretically sophisticated and illuminating reading of Tacitus, especially the Histories, this work points to a new understanding of the logic of Roman rule during the early Empire.

Tacitus, in Holly Haynes' analysis, does not write about the reality of imperial politics and culture but about the imaginary picture that imperial society makes of these concrete conditions of existence--the "making up and believing" that figure in both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236505
• ISBN13: 9780520236509
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"