This paper aims at investigating the influence of the civil war of 69 AD over G. R. R. Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire, drawing special attention to the legitimacy of the pretenders to the iron throne. Although it is a well-known fact that G. R. R. Martin’s principal inspiration is the War of the Roses, I argue here that the similarities bet...
According to Tacitus, Galba developed a discourse about the optimus princeps when he adopted Piso on January 69, five days before both were killed at Otho's instigation. Although chosen by senators, Galba is never described as an optimus princeps in biographical and historical sources from the end of the first/beginning of the second century. This ...
Si les élections n’ont pas disparu avec l’installation du Principat à Rome, les leviers dont disposaient les empereurs pour contrôler le processus électoral rendaient l’intervention du peuple purement formelle. Face à ce constat, Tacite redéploya le lexique électoral, dont le référent était désormais caduc au plan politique, et l’appliqua métaphori...
Among the many possible studies about atheism such the accomplished by the French historian Georges Minois in his Histoire de l’athéisme (A History of Atheism) of 1998, the most important in this writing will be the atheist characterization on Classical Antiquity (Athens 5TH-4TH Century BCE and Rome 1ST Century BCE-2ND Century CE), but inside of th...
Tacitus’texts are permeated with fear. This effect is reached as a result of the use of a rich vocabulary related to fear and numerous scenes in which fear plays a major role. The structure of Tacitus’stories is in fact composed of the overlapping kinds of fear caused and felt by people in power, participating in its execution, aspiring to hold it ...
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In this article, we present Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus, as well as the critical fortune of the work and the conceptual tools it mobilizes. Its interpretation benefits enormously from an approach that takes into account sociological and psychological aspects of the context in which the Dialogus was published, which we explain, and we review som...
L’article propose de mesurer le poids réel de l’influence de Corneille sur l’écriture racinienne lors de leur première rencontre : Racine ne s’est pas contenté de reprendre un thème romain, il a manipulé la source de Tacite pour aboutir à une structure très proche de celle de Cinna. Il n’a pourtant pas pu s’empêcher de perfectionner le palimpseste ...
Les discours populaires sur le corps des Princes au ier siècle ap. J.-C. sont souvent dénigrés par différents moyens dans les sources littéraires qui les transmettent : à en croire les historiens et biographes impériaux, ils ne traduisent que l’attachement du peuple à l’inanité de l’apparence physique et mettent en évidence la dépolitisation des fo...
