Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian by Shadi Bartsch

Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian

Revealing Antiquity

Shadi Bartsch

309 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary challenging medium-paced
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Some Roman senators, forced to become actors and dissimulators under the scrutinizing eye of the ruler, portrayed themselves and their class as the victims of regimes that are, for us, redolent of Stalinism. Other writers claimed that doublespeak-...

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